THE RHIC ACCELERATOR.

Book · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2002

OSTI ID:812525

HARRISON, M; PEGGS, S; ROSER, T

This review discusses the design and initial operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), noting the novel features of a heavy ion collider that are distinct from conventional hadron colliders. These features reflect the experimental requirements of operation with a variety of ion species over a wide energy range, including collisions between ions of unequal energies and polarized protons. Other unique aspects of RHIC include intrabeam scattering, interaction-region error compensation, and transition crossing with a slow ramp rate. The RHIC facility has just completed the second physics run after beam commissioning in 2000.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/SC (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 812525
• Report Number(s): BNL-71397-2003-BC; R&D Project: 18059; KB0202011; TRN: US0303406
• Resource Relation: Other Information: BOOK TITLE:ANNUAL REVIEW OF NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE SCIENCE, VOL.52, CHRIS QUIGG, FNAL, AND VERA LUTH, SLAC, ANNUAL REVIEWS; PBD: 1 Jan 2002
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
COMMISSIONING
DESIGN
ENERGY RANGE
HADRONS
HEAVY IONS
PHYSICS
PROTONS
SCATTERING