Author: Sandberg, J.
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MOYBA6 Accelerator Performance During the Beam Energy Scan II at RHIC in 2019 26
 
  • C. Liu, I. Blacker, M. Blaskiewicz, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, K.A. Drees, A.V. Fedotov, W. Fischer, C.J. Gardner, C.E. Giorgio, X. Gu, T. Hayes, H. Huang, R.L. Hulsart, D. Kayran, N.A. Kling, Y. Luo, D. Maffei, G.J. Marr, B. Martin, A. Marusic, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, J. Morris, C. Naylor, S. Nemesure, I. Pinayev, S. Polizzo, V.H. Ranjbar, D. Raparia, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, J. Sandberg, V. Schoefer, F. Severino, T.C. Shrey, K.S. Smith, S. Tepikian, P. Thieberger, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno, I.Y. Zhang, W. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
RHIC provided Au-Au collisions at beam energies of 9.8, 7.3, 4.59 and 3.85 GeV/nucleon during the first year of the Beam Energy Scan II in 2019. The physics goals at the first two higher beam energies were achieved. At the two lower beam energies, bunched electron beam cooling has been demonstrated successfully. The accelerator performance was improved compared to when RHIC was operated at these energies in earlier years. This article will introduce the challenges to operate RHIC at low energies and the corresponding countermeasures, and review the improvement of accelerator performance during the operation in 2019.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-MOYBA6  
About • paper received ※ 21 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 06 September 2019       issue date ※ 08 October 2019  
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TUPLO03 RHIC Beam Abort System Upgrade Options 536
 
  • W. Fischer, M. Blaskiewicz, M. Mapes, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, S.K. Nayak, V. Ptitsyn, J. Sandberg, P. Thieberger, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, K. Yip
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by U.S. DOE under contract No DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
The RHIC ion (polarized proton) beam intensity has increased to 4x (1.1x) of the original design specifications. In 2013 proton beam currents overcame the eddy current reduction design features in the RHIC beam abort system kicker magnets causing ferrite heating and resulting in a reduction of the kicker strength. In 2014, the abort kicker ferrites were changed, the eddy current reduction design was upgraded, and an active ferrite cooling loop installed to prevent heating. For ions the beam dump vacuum window was changed from stainless steel to a titanium alloy and the adjacent beam diffuser block carbon material was changed to allow for higher ion intensities. A thicker beam pipe was installed to prevent secondaries from quenching the adjacent superconducting quadrupole. With these upgrades there is at least a factor 2 of safety margin for the demonstrated intensities to date. For a further increase in the intensity for RHIC and eRHIC we evaluate upgrade options for the beam abort system.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-TUPLO03  
About • paper received ※ 26 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 05 September 2019       issue date ※ 08 October 2019  
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TUPLO05 Fixed Target Operation at RHIC in 2019 542
 
  • C. Liu, I. Blacker, M. Blaskiewicz, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, K.A. Drees, A.V. Fedotov, W. Fischer, C.J. Gardner, C.E. Giorgio, X. Gu, T. Hayes, H. Huang, R.L. Hulsart, D. Kayran, N.A. Kling, Y. Luo, D. Maffei, G.J. Marr, B. Martin, A. Marusic, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, J. Morris, C. Naylor, S. Nemesure, I. Pinayev, S. Polizzo, V.H. Ranjbar, D. Raparia, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, J. Sandberg, V. Schoefer, F. Severino, T.C. Shrey, K.S. Smith, S. Tepikian, P. Thieberger, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno, I.Y. Zhang, W. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
RHIC operated in fixed target mode at beam energies 4.59, 7.3, and 31.2 GeV/nucleon in 2019 as a part of the Beam Energy Scan II program. To scrape beam halo effectively at the fixed target which is 2.05 m away from the center of the STAR detectors, lattice design with relative large beta function at STAR was implemented at the two lower energies. The kickers of the base-band tune (BBQ) measurement system were engaged to dilute the beam transversely to maintain the event rate except for 31.2 GeV/nucleon. In addition, beam orbit control, tune and chromaticity adjustments were used to level the event rate. This paper will review the operational experience of RHIC in fixed target mode at various energies.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-TUPLO05  
About • paper received ※ 21 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 15 September 2019       issue date ※ 08 October 2019  
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WEPLH11 RHIC Quench Protection Diode Radiation Damage 831
 
  • K.A. Drees, O. Biletskyi, D. Bruno, A. Di Lieto, J. Escallier, G. Heppner, C. Mi, T. Samms, J. Sandberg
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Each of RHIC’s superconducting magnets is protected by a silicon quench protection diode (QPD). In total, RHIC has over 800 diodes installed inside the cryostat close to the vacuum pipe~[RHICconfig]. After years of operation with high energy heavy ion beams we experienced a first permanently damaged QPD in the middle of our FY2016 Au Au run and a second damaged diode in the following year. In 2016 the run had to be interrupted by 19 days to replace the diode, in 2017 RHIC could still operate with a reduced ramping speed of the superconducting magnets. Both diodes were replaced and examined "cold" as well as "warm". This paper reports on what we have learned so far about the conditions leading up to the damage as well as the damage itself.
 
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About • paper received ※ 23 August 2019       paper accepted ※ 05 September 2019       issue date ※ 08 October 2019  
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THZBA5 First Electron Cooling of Hadron Beams Using a Bunched Electron Beam 957
 
  • A.V. Fedotov, Z. Altinbas, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, D. Bruno, J.C. Brutus, M.R. Costanzo, K.A. Drees, W. Fischer, J.M. Fite, M. Gaowei, D.M. Gassner, X. Gu, J. Halinski, K. Hamdi, L.R. Hammons, T. Hayes, R.L. Hulsart, P. Inacker, J.P. Jamilkowski, Y.C. Jing, P.K. Kankiya, D. Kayran, J. Kewisch, D. Lehn, C.J. Liaw, C. Liu, J. Ma, G.J. Mahler, M. Mapes, A. Marusic, K. Mernick, C. Mi, R.J. Michnoff, T.A. Miller, M.G. Minty, S.K. Nayak, L.K. Nguyen, M.C. Paniccia, I. Pinayev, S. Polizzo, V. Ptitsyn, T. Rao, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, J. Sandberg, V. Schoefer, S. Seletskiy, F. Severino, T.C. Shrey, L. Smart, K.S. Smith, H. Song, A. Sukhanov, R. Than, P. Thieberger, S.M. Trabocchi, J.E. Tuozzolo, P. Wanderer, E. Wang, G. Wang, D. Weiss, B.P. Xiao, T. Xin, W. Xu, A. Zaltsman, H. Zhao, Z. Zhao
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The Low Energy RHIC electron Cooler (LEReC) was recently constructed and commissioned at BNL. The LEReC is the first electron cooler based on the RF acceleration of electron bunches (previous electron coolers all used DC beams). Bunched electron beams are necessary for cooling hadron beams at high energies. The challenges of such an approach include generation of electron beams suitable for cooling, delivery of electron beams of the required quality to the cooling sections without degradation of beam emittances and energy spread, achieving required small angles between electrons and ions in the cooling sections, precise energy matching between the two beams, high-current operation of the electron accelerator, as well as several physics effects related to bunched beam cooling. Following successful commissioning of the electron accelerator in 2018, the focus of the LEReC project in 2019 was on establishing electron-ion interactions and demonstration of cooling process using electron energy of 1.6MeV (ion energy of 3.85GeV/n), which is the lowest energy of interest. Here we report on the first demonstration of Au ion cooling in RHIC using this new approach.
 
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