RHIC OPERATION WITH LONGITUDINALLY POLARIZED PROTONS.

Conference · Mon Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2004

OSTI ID:15007995

HUANG,H.BAI,M.BEEBE-WANG,J.ET AL.

Polarized proton beams have been accelerated, stored and collided at 100GeV per beam in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) with longitudinal polarization. The essential equipment includes four Siberian snakes, eight spin rotators and fast relative polarimeters in each of the two RHIC rings as well as local polarimeters at the STAR and PHENIX detectors. This paper summarizes the performance of RHIC as a polarized proton collider in the FY03 run with emphasis on polarization issues. Preliminary data from the FY04 run is also shown.

• Research Organization: BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/OFFICE OF SCIENCE (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 15007995
• Report Number(s): BNL-72139-2004-CP; R&D Project: AD-002-ADOP; KB020204; TRN: US0402944
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2004 EUROPEAN PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE (EPAC-04), LUCERNE (CH), 07/05/2004--07/09/2004; Other Information: PBD: 5 Jul 2004
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
HEAVY IONS
PERFORMANCE
POLARIMETERS
POLARIZATION
PROTON BEAMS
PROTONS
SPIN