Author: Liu, C.
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MOOCN3 RHIC Polarized Proton Operation 41
 
  • H. Huang, L. A. Ahrens, I.G. Alekseev, E.C. Aschenauer, G. Atoian, M. Bai, A. Bazilevsky, J. Beebe-Wang, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, A. Dion, K.A. Drees, W. Fischer, C.J. Gardner, J.W. Glenn, X. Gu, M. Harvey, T. Hayes, L.T. Hoff, R.L. Hulsart, J.S. Laster, C. Liu, Y. Luo, W.W. MacKay, Y. Makdisi, M. Mapes, G.J. Marr, A. Marusic, F. Méot, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, J. Morris, S. Nemesure, A. Poblaguev, V. Ptitsyn, V.H. Ranjbar, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, W.B. Schmidke, V. Schoefer, F. Severino, D. Smirnov, K.S. Smith, D. Steski, D. Svirida, S. Tepikian, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, G. Wang, M. Wilinski, K. Yip, A. Zaltsman, A. Zelenski, K. Zeno, S.Y. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, 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 operation as the polarized proton collider presents unique challenges since both luminosity and spin polarization are important. With longitudinally polarized beams at the experiments, the figure of merit is LP4. A lot of upgrades and modifications have been made since last polarized proton operation. A 9 MHz rf system has been installed to improve longitudinal match at injection and to increase luminosity. The beam dumps were upgraded to allow for increased bunch intensities. A vertical survey of RHIC was performed before the run to get better magnet alignment. The orbit control has also been improved this year. Additional efforts were put in to improve source polarization and AGS polarization transfer efficiency. To preserve polarization on the ramp, a new working point was chosen such that the vertical tune is near a third order resonance. The overview of the changes and the operation results are presented in this paper.
 
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THP056 Near Real-time ORM Measurements and SVD Matrix Generation for 10 Hz Global Orbit Feedback In RHIC 2226
 
  • C. Liu, R.L. Hulsart, W.W. MacKay, A. Marusic, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
To reduce the effect of trajectory perturbations due to vibrations of the final focusing quadrupoles at RHIC, global orbit feedback was successfully prototyped during run-10. The system was tested using transfer functions between the beam position monitors and correctors obtained from the online optical model and a correction algorithm based on singular value decomposition (SVD). In run-11 we plan to self-calibrate the system using SVD matrices derived from orbit response matrix (ORM) measurements acquired real-time using the new FPGA-based signal processing. Comparisons between measurement and model and of feedback performance with the two methods are presented.
 
 
THP057 Optimal Focusing for a Linac-Based Hard X-ray Source 2229
 
  • C. Liu
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • G.A. Krafft
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • R.M. Talman
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
In spite of having a small average beam current limit, a linac can have features that make it attractive as an x-ray source: high energy, ultralow emittance and energy spread, and flexible beamline optics. Unlike a storage ring, in which an (undulator) radiation source is necessarily short and positioned at a electron beam waist, in a linac the undulator can be long and the electron beam can be adjusted to have a (virtual) waist far downstream toward the x-ray target. Using a planned CEBAF beamline as an example, this paper shows that a factor of 2000 in beam current can be overcome to produce a monochromatic hard x-ray source comparable with, or even exceeding, the performance of an x-ray line at a third generation storage ring. The optimal electron beam focusing conditions for x-ray flux density and brilliance are derived, and are verified by simulations using the SRW code.
 
 
MOP268 RHIC 10 Hz Global Orbit Feedback System 609
 
  • R.J. Michnoff, L. Arnold, C. Carboni, P. Cerniglia, A.J. Curcio, L. DeSanto, C. Folz, C. Ho, L.T. Hoff, R.L. Hulsart, R. Karl, C. Liu, Y. Luo, W.W. MacKay, G.J. Mahler, W. Meng, K. Mernick, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, R.H. Olsen, J. Piacentino, P. Popken, R. Przybylinski, V. Ptitsyn, J. Ritter, R.F. Schoenfeld, P. Thieberger, J.E. Tuozzolo, A. Weston, J. White, P. Ziminski, P. Zimmerman
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Vibrations of the cryogenic triplet magnets at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are suspected to be causing the beam perturbations observed at frequencies around 10 Hz. Several solutions to counteract the effect have been considered in the past, including reinforcing the magnet base support assembly, a mechanical servo feedback system, and a local beam feedback system at each of the two experimental areas. However, implementation of the mechanical solutions would be expensive, and the local feedback system was insufficient since perturbation amplitudes outside the experimental areas were still problematic. A global 10 Hz orbit feedback system is currently under development at RHIC consisting of 36 beam position monitors (BPMs) and 12 small dedicated dipole corrector magnets in each of the two counter-rotating rings. A subset of the system consisting of 8 BPMs and 4 corrector magnets in each ring was installed and successfully tested during the RHIC 2010 run; and the complete system is being installed for the 2011 run. A description of the overall system architecture and results with beam will be discussed.
 
 
THP055 Status of the RHIC Head-on Beam-beam Compensation Project 2223
 
  • W. Fischer, M. Anerella, E.N. Beebe, D. Bruno, D.M. Gassner, X. Gu, R.C. Gupta, J. Hock, A.K. Jain, R.F. Lambiase, C. Liu, Y. Luo, M. Mapes, T.A. Miller, C. Montag, B. Oerter, M. Okamura, A.I. Pikin, D. Raparia, Y. Tan, R. Than, P. Thieberger, J.E. Tuozzolo, W. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by U.S. DOE under contract No DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Two electron lenses are under construction for RHIC to partially compensate the head-on beam-beam effect in order to increase both the peak and average luminosity. The final design of the overall system is reported as well as the status of the component design, acquisition, and manufacturing.