Intensity dependent effects in RHIC

Journal Article · Fri Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 1999 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1301886· OSTI ID:21207636

Jie, Wei ^[1]

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1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is currently under commissioning after a seven-year construction cycle. Unlike conventional hadron colliders, this machine accelerates, stores, and collides heavy ion beams of various combinations of species. The dominant intensity dependent effects are intra-beam scattering at both injection and storage, and complications caused by crossing transition at a slow ramp rate. In this paper, we present theoretical formalisms that have been used for our study, and discuss mechanisms, impacts, and compensation methods including beam cooling and transition jump schemes. Effects of space charge, beam-beam, and ring impedances are also summarized.

• OSTI ID: 21207636
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 496, Issue 1; Conference: Workshop on instabilities of high intensity hadron beams in rings, Upton, NY (United States), 28 Jun - 1 Jul 1999; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1301886; (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BEAM BUNCHING
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BEAM CURRENTS
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BROOKHAVEN RHIC
COLLIDING BEAMS
COMMISSIONING
FOCUSING
HEAVY IONS
IMPEDANCE
ION BEAMS
PARTICLE BEAMS
PHASE SPACE
SPACE CHARGE