Acceleration and storage of polarized proton beams

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:402362

Roser, T

High energy polarized beam collisions will open up the unique physics opportunities of studying spin effects in hard processes. Proposals for polarized proton acceleration for several high energy colliders have been developed. A partial Siberian Snake in the AGS has recently been successfully tested and full Siberian Snakes, spin rotators, and polarimeters for RHIC are being developed to make the acceleration of polarized beams to 250 GeV possible. This allows for the unique possibility of colliding two 250 GeV polarized proton beams at luminosities of up to 2 x 10{sup 32} cm{sup -2} s{sup -1}.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 402362
• Report Number(s): BNL--63478; CONF-951280--5; ON: DE97000337
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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