The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven

Conference · Sat Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5828707

Hahn, H

The conceptual design of a collider capable of accelerating and colliding heavy ions and to be constructed in the existing 3.8 km tunnel at Brookhaven has been developed. The collider has been designed to provide collisions of gold ions at six intersection points with a luminosity of about 2 /times/ 10/sup 26/ cm/sup /minus/2/sec/sup /minus/1/ at an energy per nucleon of 100 GeV in each beam. Collisions with different ion species, including protons, will be possible. The salient design features and the reasons for major design choices of the proposed machine are discussed in this paper. 28 refs., 2 figs., 1 tab.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5828707
• Report Number(s): BNL-42495; CONF-890803-10; ON: DE89017598
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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