Possibility of acceleration of polarized protons in the Brookhaven AGS

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6316952

Crabb, D G; Krisch, A D; Terwilliger, K M; Cork, B; Courant, E D; Feltman, A; Ruth, R D; Parker, E F; Ratner, L G

The unexpected importance of high energy spin effects and the success of the 12 GeV Argonne ZGS in jumping many intrinsic and imperfection depolarizing resonances suggests that polarized proton acceleration should be tried at higher energy. The 1977 Ann Arbor Workshop concluded that it might be possible to jump depolarizing resonances in strong focusing synchrotrons. During the past year we have evaluated the possibility of accelerating polarized protons in the Brookhaven AGS. We found that for about $2 million one could obtain a polarized ion source, fast resonance jumping magnets, and 3 polarimeters which should allow acceleration of 10/sup 11/ to 10/sup 12/ polarized protons to 23 GeV/c with about 70= polarization or to 26 GeV/c with about 50% polarization.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-02-0016
• OSTI ID: 6316952
• Report Number(s): BNL-25734; CONF-790327-160
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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