BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
In polarized proton operation in RHIC coherent beam-beam modes are routinely observed with beam transfer function measurements in the vertical plane. With the existence of coherent modes a larger space is required in the tune diagram than without them and stable conditions can be compromised for operation with high intensity beams as foreseen for future luminosity upgrades. We report on experiments and simulations carried out to understand the existence of coherent modes in the vertical plane and their absence in the horizontal plane, and investigate possible mitigation strategies.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The RHIC physics programs involve experiments with polarized proton and several species of ion beams. In the past, when switching between physics programs, first turn and circulating beam in RHIC was established manually by adjustments to the corrector dipoles for minimum beam loss. In this report, we introduce a new steering scheme based on an SVD algorithm which uses a single-pass orbit response matrix for first turn steering. The new scheme was implemented into the controls system and demonstrated successfully in Run-11. Establishing circulating beam using this automated approach has been shown to dramatically reduce the beam setup time.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Many errors in an accelerator are evidenced as transverse kicks to the beam, which distort the beam trajectory. Therefore, the information of the errors are imprinted in the distorted orbits, which are different from what would be predicted by the optics model. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for fitting the orbit based on an on-line optics model. We apply the algorithm to localize the location of the elusive source of vertical diurnal variations observed in RHIC, and analyze D0/Dx errors in local coupling measurement.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The 10-Hz global orbit feedback, for damping the trajectory perturbation (~10 Hz) due to the vibrations of the triplets, is operational for injection and store in RHIC. The operation of the system has been performed using transfer functions between the beam position monitors and correctors obtained from the online optics model and a correction algorithm based on singular value decomposition (SVD). Calibration of the transfer functions by measuring the beam position oscillations while modulating the dedicated correctors has been carried out. The feedback results with model matrix and measured matrix will be compared.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Measurements of the beam position along an accelerator are typically treated equally using standard SVD-based orbit correction algorithms so distributing the residual errors, modulo the local beta function, equally at the measurement locations. However, sometimes a more stable orbit at select locations is desirable. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for weighting the beam position measurements to achieve a more stable local orbit. The results of its application to close-orbit correction and 10-Hz orbit feedback will be shown and analyzed.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
In polarized proton operation, the RHIC performance is limited by the head-on beam-beam effect. To overcome these limitations two electron lenses are under construction. We give an overview of the progress over the last year. Guns, collectors and the warm electron beam transport solenoids with their associated power supplies have been constructed. The superconducting solenoids that guide the electron beam during the interaction with the proton beam are near completion. A test stand has been set up to verify the performance of gun, collector and some of the instrumentation. The RHIC infrastructure is being prepared for installation, and simulations continue to optimize the performance.
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
We are performing several experiments during the RHIC ramp to better understand the impact of orbit errors on the polarization at our current working point. These will be conducted by exciting specified orbit harmonics during the final two large intrinsic resonance crossing in RHIC during the 250 GeV polarized proton ramp. The resultant polarization response will then be measured.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Residual vertical dispersion on the order of ±0.2 m (peak to peak) has been measured at store energies for both polarized proton and heavy ion beams. The hypothesis is that this may have impact on the polarization transmission efficiency during the energy ramp, the beam lifetimes, and, especially for heavy ions, the dynamics aperture. An algorithm to correct global coupling and dispersion simultaneously using skew quads was developed for RHIC. Simulation results together with the measured coupling and dispersion functions before and after correction will be shown for both injection and store together with an assessment of overall collider performance improvement.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Over the last few years, physicists have suspected the presence of noise acting on the RHIC beams observable as occasional emittance growth at high beam energies. While the noise was sporadic in the past, it became more persistent during the run-11 setup period. An investigation diagnosed the source as originating from the RHIC abort kicker system. Once identified the issue was quickly resolved. We report in this paper the investigation result, circuit analysis, measured and simulated waveforms, solutions, and future plans.