An overview of Booster and AGS polarized proton operation during Run 15

Technical Report · Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1228843· OSTI ID:1228843

Zeno, K. ^[1]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

This note is an overview of the Booster and AGS for the 2015 Polarized Proton RHIC run from an operations perspective. There are some notable differences between this and previous runs. In particular, the polarized source intensity was expected to be, and was, higher this year than in previous RHIC runs. The hope was to make use of this higher input intensity by allowing the beam to be scraped down more in the Booster to provide a brighter and smaller beam for the AGS and RHIC. The RHIC intensity requirements were also higher this run than in previous runs, which caused additional challenges because the AGS polarization and emittance are normally intensity dependent.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• DOE Contract Number: SC00112704
• OSTI ID: 1228843
• Report Number(s): BNL-108554-2015-IR; R&D Project: KBCH139; 18032; KB0202011; TRN: US1600103
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
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OPERATION
POLARIZED BEAMS
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ION SOURCES
BEAM DYNAMICS
BEAM CURRENTS
BEAM EMITTANCE
BEAM PROFILES
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