Analysis of RHIC beam dump pre-fires

Conference · Mon Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2011

OSTI ID:1017402

Zhang, W; Ahrens, L; Fischer, W; Hahn, H; Mi, J; Sandberg, J; Tan, Y

It has been speculated that the beam may cause instability of the RHIC Beam Abort Kickers. In this study, we explore the available data of past beam operations, the device history of key modulator components, and the radiation patterns to examine the correlations. The RHIC beam abort kicker system was designed and built in the 90's. Over last decade, we have made many improvements to bring the RHIC beam abort kicker system to a stable operational state. However, the challenge continues. We present the analysis of the pre-fire, an unrequested discharge of kicker, issues which relates to the RHIC machine safety and operational stability.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - OFFICE OF SCIENCE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 1017402
• Report Number(s): BNL-94156-2011-CP; R&D Project: KBCH139; 18037; KB0202011; TRN: US1103241
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC'11); New York, NY; 20110328 through 20110401
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
ACCELERATORS
BEAM DUMPS
INSTABILITY
RADIATIONS
SAFETY
STABILITY
relativistic heavy ion collider