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Title: 20% PARTIAL SIBERIAN SNAKE IN THE AGS.

Abstract

An 11.4% partial Siberian snake was used to successfully accelerate polarized proton through a strong intrinsic depolarizing spin resonance in the AGS. No noticeable depolarization was observed. This opens up the possibility of using a 20% to 30% partial Siberian snake in the AGS to overcome all weak and strong depolarizing spin resonances. Some design and operation issues of the new partial Siberian snake are discussed.

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Research Org.:
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (US)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/SC (US)
OSTI Identifier:
15006594
Report Number(s):
BNL-71492-2003-CP
R&D Project: AD003; KB0202011; TRN: US0400863
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-98CH10886
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: WORKSHOP ON INCREASING THE AGS POLARIZATION, ANN ARBOR, MI (US), 11/06/2002--11/09/2002; Other Information: PBD: 6 Nov 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; POLARIZATION; BROOKHAVEN AGS; BEAM DYNAMICS

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Huang, H, Bai, M, Brown, K A, Glenn, W, Luccio, A U, Mackay, W W, Montag, C, Ptitsyn, V, Roser, T, Tsoupas, N, Zeno, K, Ranjbar, V, Spinka, H, and Underwood, D. 20% PARTIAL SIBERIAN SNAKE IN THE AGS.. United States: N. p., 2002. Web.
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Huang, H, Bai, M, Brown, K A, Glenn, W, Luccio, A U, Mackay, W W, Montag, C, Ptitsyn, V, Roser, T, Tsoupas, N, Zeno, K, Ranjbar, V, Spinka, H, & Underwood, D. 20% PARTIAL SIBERIAN SNAKE IN THE AGS.. United States.
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Huang, H, Bai, M, Brown, K A, Glenn, W, Luccio, A U, Mackay, W W, Montag, C, Ptitsyn, V, Roser, T, Tsoupas, N, Zeno, K, Ranjbar, V, Spinka, H, and Underwood, D. Wed . "20% PARTIAL SIBERIAN SNAKE IN THE AGS.". United States. doi:. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/15006594.
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title = {20% PARTIAL SIBERIAN SNAKE IN THE AGS.},
author = {Huang, H and Bai, M and Brown, K A and Glenn, W and Luccio, A U and Mackay, W W and Montag, C and Ptitsyn, V and Roser, T and Tsoupas, N and Zeno, K and Ranjbar, V and Spinka, H and Underwood, D},
abstractNote = {An 11.4% partial Siberian snake was used to successfully accelerate polarized proton through a strong intrinsic depolarizing spin resonance in the AGS. No noticeable depolarization was observed. This opens up the possibility of using a 20% to 30% partial Siberian snake in the AGS to overcome all weak and strong depolarizing spin resonances. Some design and operation issues of the new partial Siberian snake are discussed.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2002},
month = {Wed Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2002}
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