INTENSITY DEPENDENT EFFECTS IN RHIC

Conference · Thu Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:761068

WEI, J

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, the authors present theoretical formalisms that have been used for the 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.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 761068
• Report Number(s): BNL-66781; KB0202000; R&D Project: RC1000; KB0202000; TRN: US0005254
• Resource Relation: Conference: WORKSHOP ON INSTABILITIES OF HIGH INTENSITY HADRON BEAMS IN RINGS, UPTON, NY (US), 06/28/1999--07/01/1999; Other Information: PBD: 2 Sep 1999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BROOKHAVEN RHIC
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ION BEAMS
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HEAVY IONS
BEAM INJECTION
SPACE CHARGE
BEAM-BEAM INTERACTIONS
BEAM DYNAMICS