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.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Particle Beam Lasers, Inc., Northridge, California, USA
This paper will present the construction and test results of a ~10 T insert coil solenoid which is part of a proposed ~35 T solenoid being developed under a series of SBIR contracts involving collaboration between Particle Beam Lasers (PBL) and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The solenoid has an inner diameter of 25 mm, outer diameter of ~95 mm and a length of ~70 mm. It consists of 14 single pancake coils made from 4 mm wide 2G HTS conductor from SuperPower Inc., co-wound with a 4 mm wide, 0.025 mm thick stainless steel tape. These are paired into 7 double pancake coils. Each double pancake coil has been individually tested at 77 K before assembly in a complete solenoid. The solenoid is nearly ready for a high field test at ~4K.