Booster Applications Facility report: Addendum
- ed.
This proposal is based on the conceptual design and feasibility study (BNL report {number_sign}52291) which was performed at the request, and with the support of NASA`s Life Sciences Division. The BNL Booster, which is now being successfully commissioned with protons, will undergo similar tests and initial heavy-ion operation in early 1992. This accelerator is a fast cycling synchrotron, and therefore capable of sequentially delivering independent alternate pulses of different ions for two applications. Thus, after a pulse is injected in the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) for further acceleration, there will be ample time to deliver a pulse of a different ion to a proposed Booster Applications Facility (BAF) before the next AGS pulse is required. Cost effective BAF operation and reliable beam delivery would result. This is guaranteed by the need to maintain all the systems in good operating condition for the main mission of the facility, which is the injection of AGS, and eventually of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). A large variety of high-Z high-energy (HZE) particles can be produced, ranging from maximum energies of 1.5 GeV/AMU for ions lighter than iron, to {approximately}1.25 GeV/AMU for iron, and to {approximately}350 MeV/AMU for gold.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 10132671
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-45053; ON: DE92010010
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Jan 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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