ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
The 248-meter Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) accumulator ring has accumulated up to 1.55·1014, 1 GeV protons. At this intensity, space charge effects contribute significantly to the beam dynamics. Here we present observations of space charge effects in the SNS ring, with emphasis on space charge effects and e-p instabilities.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
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.
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
Diamond, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, USA
A micron-scale dielectric-based slab-symmetric accelerator is currently being designed and fabricated at UCLA. This Micro-Accelerator Platform (MAP) accelerates electrons in a 800nm wide vacuum gap via a resonant accelerating mode excited by a side-coupled optical-wavelength laser. Detailed results of particle dynamics and field simulations are presented. In particular, we examine various methods of achieving net acceleration and particle stability. Additionally, structural designs that produce accelerating fields synchronous with both relativistic and sub-relativistic electrons are discussed.
Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
Parametric-resonance Ionization Cooling (PIC) is proposed as the final 6D cooling stage of a high-luminosity muon collider. For the implementation of PIC, we earlier developed an epicyclic twin-helix channel with correlated behavior of the horizontal and vertical betatron motions and dispersion. We now insert absorber plates with short energy-recovering units located next to them at the appropriate locations in the twin-helix channel. We first demonstrate conventional ionization cooling in such a system with the optics uncorrelated. We then adjust the correlated optics state and induce a parametric resonance to study ionization cooling under the resonant condition.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The commissioning of the RHIC spin flipper in the RHIC Blue ring during the RHIC polarized proton run in 2009 showed the detrimental effects of global vertical coherent betatron oscillation induced by the 2-AC dipole plus 4-DC dipole configuration *. Additional three AC dipoles were added to the RHIC spin flipper in the RHIC Blue ring during the summer of 2010 to eliminate the vertical coherent betatron oscillations outside the spin flipper [2]. This new design is scheduled to be commissioned during the RHIC polarized proton run in 2011. This paper presents the status of the system as well as latest simulation results.
* M. Bai , T. Roser, C. Dawson, Y. Makdisi, W. Meng, F. Meot, P. Oddo, C. Pai, P. Pile, RHIC Spin Flipper New Design and Commissioning Plan, IPAC10 proceedings, IPAC 2010, Kyoto, Japan, 2010
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
Numerous storage ring diagnostic operations require synchronous excitation of beam motion. An example is the lattice phase measurement, which involves synchronous detection of the driven betatron motion. In the CESR storage ring, the transverse tunes continuously vary by several times their natural width. Hence, synchronous beam excitation is impossible without active feedback control. The digital tune tracker consists of a direct digital frequency synthesizer which drives the beam through a transverse kicker, and is phase locked to the detected betatron signal from a quad button position detector. This ensures synchronous excitation, and by setting the correct locking phase, the excitation can be tuned to peak resonance. The fully digital signal detection allows a single bunch amid a long train to be synchronously driven, which allows lattice diagnostics to be performed which include collective effects. The collective effects potentially of interest in CESR include wakefield couplings within the train, and plasma effects such as ion trapping and electron cloud trapping.
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
A console application using the phasing of Turn-by-Turn signals from the different BPMs has been tested at the Fermilab Booster. This techinique allows the on-line detection of the beam tunes during the fast Booster ramp in conditions where other algorithms were unsuccessful. The application has been recently expanded to include the computation of the linear coupling coefficients. Algorithm and measurement results are presented.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
The TE wave propagation method has become a widely used technique for measuring electron cloud density in an accelerator beampipe. In most instances the wave very low power is not capable of affecting the low-energy electrons distribution. During experiments in the CESR Damping Ring Test Accelerator (Cesr-TA), we have observed a particular situation where a resonance between the wave and a dipole magnetic field produces a large modification in the electron cloud distribution that can be measured by other detectors. We believe this resonance is strongly dependent on the geometry of standing waves pattern that discontinuities in the beampipe generate. We present measurements in Cesr-TA, which describe the effect and are in support of our hypothesis.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS) LLRF system utilizes the RHIC LLRF upgrade platform to achieve the required functionality and flexibility. The LLRF system provides drive to the EBIS high-level RF system, employs IQ feedback to provide required amplitude and phase stability, and implements a cavity resonance control scheme. The embedded system provides the interface to the existing Controls System, making remote system control and diagnostic possible. The flexibility of the system allows us to reuse VHDL codes, develop new functionalities, improve current designs, and implement new features with relative ease. In this paper, we will discuss the commissioning process, issues encountered, and performance of the system.
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Universität Bonn, Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Bonn, Germany
GOO Zaryad, Novosibirsk, Russia
University of Michigan, Spin Physics Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
IUCF, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Spin dynamics of polarized deuteron beams near depolarization resonances, including a new polarization preservation concept based on specially-designed multiple resonance crossings, has been tested in a series of experiments in the COSY synchrotron. Intricate spin dynamics with sophisticated pre-programmed patterns as well as effects of multiple crossings of a resonance were studied both theoretically and experimentally with excellent agreement. Possible applications of these results to preserve, manipulate and spin-flip polarized beams in synchrotrons and storage rings are discussed.
IUCEEM, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
IUCF, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
RF guns play an integral role in the success of several light sources around the world, and properly designed and optimized cw superconducting RF (SRF) guns can provide a path to higher average brightness. As the need for these guns grows, it is important to have automated optimization software tools that vary the geometry of the gun cavity as part of the injector design process. This will allow designers to improve existing designs for present installations, extend the utility of these guns to other applications, and develop new designs. An evolutionary algorithm (EA) based system can provide this capability because EAs can search in parallel a large parameter space (often non-linear) and in a relatively short time identify promising regions of the space for more careful consideration. The injector designer can then evaluate more cavity design parameters during the injector optimization process against the beam performance requirements of the injector. This paper will describe an extension to the APISA software that allows the cavity geometry to be modified as part of the injector optimization and provide examples of its application to existing RF and SRF gun designs.
FZJ, Jülich, Germany
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
A 56 MHz Superconducting RF Cavity operating at 4.4K is being constructed for the RHIC collider. This cavity is a quarter wave resonator with beam transmission along the centreline. This cavity will increase collision luminosity by providing a large longitudinal bucket for stored bunches of RHIC ion beam. The major components of this assembly are the niobium cavity with the mechanical tuner, its titanium helium vessel and vacuum cryostat, the support system, and the ports for HOM and fundamental dampers. The cavity and its helium vessel must meet the ASME pressure vessel code and it must not be sensitive to frequency shift due to pressure fluctuations from the helium supply system. Frequency tuning achieved by a two stage mechanical tuner is required to meet performance parameters. This tuner mechanism pushes and pulls the tuning plate in the gap of niobium cavity. The tuner mechanism has two separate drive systems to provide both coarse and fine tuning capabilities. This paper discusses the design detail and how the design requirements are met.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
AES, Medford, NY, USA
The Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) 5-cell, 703 MHz superconducting RF accelerating cavity has been installed in the high-current energy recovery linac (ERL) experiment. This experiment will function as a proving ground for the development of high-current machines in general and is particularly targeted at beam development for an electron-ion collider (eRHIC). The cavity performed well in vertical tests, demonstrating gradients of 20 MV/m and a Q0 of 1010. Here we will present its performance in the horizontal tests, and discuss technical issues involved in its implementation in the ERL.
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
A single-cavity test cryostat is used to conduct pulsed high power RF tests of superconducting 1.3 GHz RF cavities at 2 K. The cavities under test are welded inside individual helium vessels and are outfitted (“dressed”) with a fundamental power coupler, higher-order mode couplers, magnetic shielding, a blade tuner, and piezoelectric tuners. The cavity performance is evaluated in terms of accelerating gradient, unloaded quality factor, and field emission, and the functionality of the auxiliary components is verified. Test results from the first set of dressed cavities are presented here.
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
Fermilab is developing 325 MHz SRF spoke cavities for the proposed ProjectX. A compact fast/slow tuner has been developed to compensate microphonics and Lorentz force detuning. The modified tuner design and results of 4K tests of the first prototype are presented.
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI), Italy
Fermilab is building Cryomodule 2 for ILCTA facility at NML. A coaxial blade tuner has been chosen for the CM2 1.3GHz SRF cavities. A summary of results from cold test of the tuners in the Fermilab Horizontal Test Stand will be presented.
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
In order to make use of ferrite and/or garnet materials in the phase and frequency locked magnetron, for which Muons, Inc., received a Phase II award, materials must be tested in two orthogonal magnetic fields. One field is from the biasing field of the magnetron, the other from the biasing field used to control the ferrite within the anode structure of the magnetron. A test fixture was built and materials are being tested to determine their suitability. The status of those material tests are reported on in this paper.
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
University of Delhi, Delhi, India
ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
A horizontal tune jump system has been installed to overcome the horizontal intrinsic spin resonances, which requires jumping the horizontal tune 0.04 units 82 times, 41 up and 41 down. Two quadruple magnets have been installed in AGS ring to do this. The pulsed magnet currents range from about 140 amps near injection to about 1400 amps late. Current pulse rise and fall times are around 100 micro-sec and flat tops time are around 4mS. These quadruples have separate supplies. This tune jump pulse power supply employees all semiconductor parts as the main switches. During dummy load and magnet testing, the test result showed that the power supply could meet the specification. This article will describe some detail of power supply simulation, design and testing. Some test waveform and pictures are presented in this paper.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Two partial snakes overcome the vertical depolarizing resonances in the AGS. But a new type of depolarizing intrinsic resonance from horizontal motion appeared. We reduce these using horizontal tune jumps timed to these resonances. We gain a factor of five in crossing rate with a tune jump of 0.04 in 100 micro-sec. Two quadrapoles, we described in 2009 *, pulse 42 times, the current matching beam energy. The power supplies for these quads will be described in this conference**. The controls for the Jump Quad system is based on a BNL designed Quad Function Generator. Two modules are used; one for timing, and one to supply reference voltages. Synchronization is provided by a proprietary serial bus, the Event Link. The AgsTuneJump application predicts the times of the resonances during the AGS cycle and calculates the power supply trigger times from externally collected tune and energy verses time data and the Low and High PS voltage functions from a voltage to current model of the power supply. The system was commissioned during runs 09 & 10. Beam effects are described elsewhere in this conference***. Details of improvements, operation and the feed forward software will be described.
* JW Glenn, et al “AGS Fast Spin Resonance,-” PAC-09
** JL Mi, et al “AGS Tune Jump Power-” these proceedings
*** L.A.Ahrens, et al "Recent RHIC Motivated Polarized-" these proceedings
ELSA, Bonn, Germany
Since more than four decades, the University of Bonn supports research at the in-house electron accelerator ELSA. Presently, the polarized electrons gained from an inverted source are accumulated in a stretcher ring and accelerated within a fraction of a second up to 3.2 GeV. During the fast ramping various depolarizing resonances are crossed. By taking several expedient measures (closed orbit correction, tune jumping, etc.) a high polarization degree of up to 65% is reached. One important part of these measures is the harmonic correction of integer resonances. Those resonances are compensated by applying additional horizontal fields, distributed sinusoidally along an one-turn orbit length. In case of an appropriate setting of amplitude and phase, all resonance driving effects should be neutralized completely. First studies have shown that vertical displacements and resulting horizontal fields in the quadrupole magnets, caused by the resonance correction, have to be taken into account as well. With regard to a new correction scheme, the first experimental results confirmed by simulative and theoretical studies will be presented.
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Charged-particle motion is studied in the self-electric and self-magnetic fields of a well-matched, intense charged-particle beam and an applied periodic solenoidal magnetic focusing field. The beam is assumed to be in a state of adiabatic thermal equilibrium. The phase space is analyzed and compared with that of the well-known Kapchinskij-Vladimirskij (KV)-type beam equilibrium. It is found that the widths of nonlinear resonances in the adiabatic thermal beam equilibrium are narrower than those in the KV-type beam equilibrium. Numerical evidence is presented, indicating almost complete elimination of chaotic particle motion in the adiabatic thermal beam equilibrium.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Designing and simulating complex magnet systems needed for cooling channels in both neutrino factories and muon colliders requires innovative techniques to correct for both chromatic and spherical aberrations. Optimizing complex systems, such as helical magnets for example, is also difficult but essential. By using COSY INFINITY, a differential algebra based code, the transfer and aberration maps can be examined to discover what critical terms have the greatest influence on these aberrations.
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
We have benchmarked UAL-SPINK against Zgoubi and a list of well understood spin physics results. Along the way we addressed issues relating to longitudinal dynamics and orbit bump and distortion handling as well as appropriate slicing necessary for the TEAPOT-SPINK spin orbit integrator. We have also ported this TEAPOT-SPINK algorithm to the GPU’s. We present the challenges associated with this work.
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Theory predicts that CSR in storage rings should appear in whispering gallery modes *, which are resonances of the entire vacuum chamber and are characterized by their high frequencies and concentration of the field near the outer wall of the chamber. The theory assumes that the chamber is a smooth circular torus. We observe that a power spectrum from the NSLS-VUV ring **, which has a vacuum chamber in bends like that of the model, shows a series of sharp peaks with frequencies close to those of the theory. Sharp peaks are also seen in highly resolved spectra at the Canadian Light Source***, and those are invariant in position under large changes in the machine setup (energy, fill pattern, bunch length, CSR bursting or steady, optical beam line, etc.). Invariance of the spectrum suggests that it is due to resonances like whispering gallery modes, but they must be strongly perturbed from the circular case because of large outer wall excursions at the two IR ports.
* R. L. Warnock and P. Morton, Part. Accel. 25, 113 (1990).
** G. L. Carr et al., Proc. PAC 2001, Chicago.
*** T. May et al., IEEE 33rd Intl. Conf. IR Millimeter and THz Waves, 2008.
University of Michigan, Spin Physics Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Universität Bonn, Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Bonn, Germany
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Spin resonances can cause partial or full depolarization or spin-flip of a polarized beam. We studied 1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-order spin resonances with a 2.1 GeV/c vertically polarized proton beam stored in the COSY Cooler Synchrotron. We observed almost full spin-flip when crossing the 1st-order G*gamma=8−nuy vertical-betatron-tune spin resonance and partial depolarization near some 2nd- and 3rd-order resonances. We observed almost full depolarization near the 1st-order G*gamma=8−nux horizontal spin resonance and partial depolarization near some 2nd- and 3rd-order resonances. Moreover, we found that a 2nd-order nux resonance seems about as strong as some 3rd-order nux resonances, while some 3rd-order nuy resonances seem much stronger than a 2nd-order nuy resonance. It was thought that, for flat accelerators, vertical spin resonances are stronger than horizontal, and lower order resonances are stronger than higher order ones. The data suggest that many higher-order spin resonances, both horizontal and vertical, must be overcome to accelerate polarized protons to high energies; the data may help RHIC to better overcome its snake resonances between 100 and 250 GeV/c.
STAAR/AWR Corporation, Mequon, USA
Electron multipacting is often deleterious in RF structures and must be controlled via modifications to the geometry, materials, or external fields. Recent improvements to the capabilities for modeling multipacting in the Analyst software package are presented in this paper. A backward difference scheme*, coupled with Newton-Raphson iteration, is used to integrate particle position/momentum, with integrations interrupted at element faces to minimize errors and lost particles. Support for the Furman-Pivi secondary emission model** has been implemented, with separate representations for low energy, re-diffused, and backscattered secondary particles, and multiple emissions per impact based upon a probability distribution. We have also developed a method to prune the tree of secondary particles resulting from an impact that minimizes particle count growth while maintaining important statistical information about the resonance. Finally, we have added support for volumetric sourcing of primaries, wherein the model volume is seeded with a population of particles with random positions and initial velocities. These improvements, along with benchmark calculations, will be presented.
* D. Darmofal, et al., Jour. Comp. Phys., 123, 1996, pp. 182-195.
** M. Furman, et al., LBNL-52807, June, 2003.
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Macalester, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
UCB, Berkeley, California, USA
The Medium-energy Electron Ion Collider (MEIC), a proposed medium-energy ring-ring electron-ion collider based on CEBAF at Jefferson Lab. The collider luminosity and stability are sensitive to the choice of a working point – the betatron and synchrotron tunes of the two colliding beams. Therefore, a careful selection of the working point is essential for stable operation of the collider, as well as for achieving high luminosity. Here we describe a novel approach for locating an optimal working point based on evolutionary algorithm techniques.
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
ANL, Argonne, USA
Beam waveguide (BWG) geometry with two longitudinally uniform concave reflectors can support quasi-optical transverse resonances of electromagnetic waves and longitudinal power transmission. The quasi-optical resonance in BWG can be treated as a Gaussian beam. The BWG are often known to have high Q-factors while operating in higher order modes. The latest interests on these beam waveguides are the application for microwave or millimeter wave undulators for synchrotron radiation. The general properties of the BWG are discussed with the field solutions and dispersion properties derived with elliptical beam waveguides approximation. Potential applications of BWG for supporting circularly polarized wave are discussed.
IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Far-Tech, Inc., San Diego, California, USA
We present the development of a novel electron accelerating structure with strong cell-to-cell coupling. The coupling is provided by a pair of resonant slots, separated by a non-resonant void region, located within the wall between adjacent cells. The 10+2/2 cell standing-wave structure, operating in a phase and amplitude stabilized pi/2 mode, will provide an energy gain of 10 MeV.
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
EMMA is the first non-scaling FFAG to be constructed, whose use of linear magnets means that the accelerating electron bunch rapidly crosses many resonances. We have modeled the capture and acceleration of bunches in the serpentine channel created by the radio-frequency cavities, and compare it to a proposed experiment in which induction cells allow slow acceleration. Two induction cores each providing ~20kV over 1.65 μs enable a number of resonance crossing experiments.
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
INFN-Pisa, Pisa, Italy
An adaptive Least Squares algorithm to control Lorentz force detuning in SRF cavities has been developed and tested in the HTS at FNAL. During open-loop tests in the FNAL HTS, the algorithm was able to reduce LFD in a 9-cell 1.3 GHz elliptical cavity operating at 35 MV/m from 600 Hz to less than 10 Hz during both the fill and the flattop. The algorithm was also able to adapt to changes in the gradient of the cavity and to changes in the pulse length.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
In this article we perform simulation studies to investigate the effects of betatron phase advances between the beam-beam interaction points on half-integer resonance driving terms, second order chromaticity and dynamic aperture in RHIC. The betatron phase advances are adjusted with artificial matrices inserted in the middle of arcs. The lattices for 2011 polarized proton (p-p) run and 2010 RHIC Au-Au runs are used in this study. We also scan the betatron phase advances between IP8 and the electron lens for the proposed Blue ring lattice with head-on beam-beam compensation.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
In this article we will answer the following questions: 1) what is the source of second order chromaticities in RHIC? 2) what is the dependence of second order chromaticity on the on-momentum β-beat? 3) what is the dependence of second order chromaticity on β* at IP6 and IP8? To answer these questions, we use the perturbation theory to numerically calculate the contributions of each quadrupole and sextupole to the first, second, and third order chromaticities. Possible methods to locally reduce chromatic effects in RHIC rings are shortly discussed.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
A compact 400-MHz half-wave spoke resonator (HWSR) superconducting crab cavity is being developed for the LHC upgrade. The cavity shape and the LOM/HOM couplers for such a design have been optimized to meet the space and beam dynamics requirements, and satisfactory RF parameters have been obtained. As it is known that multipacting is an issue of concern in a superconducting cavity which may limit the achievable gradient. Thus it is important in the cavity RF design to eliminate the potential MP conditions to save time and cost of cavity development. In this paper, we present the multipacting analysis for the HWSR crab cavity using the Track3P code developed at SLAC, and to discuss means to mitigate potential multipacting barriers.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
We present a vibration budget for the SuperB accelerator. This includes ground motion data, motion sensitivity of machine components, and beam feedback system requirements.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The RHIC polarized proton physics program requires high luminosity and high polarization which depends directly on the intensity, emittances and polarization delivered to RHIC by the injector chain. In the AGS, two partial snakes create gaps in the realized spin-tune around the integers which allows an accelerating beam with sufficiently small vertical emittance and near-integer vertical tune to avoid the imperfection and vertical intrinsic resonances. The same strategy strengthens the many (82) weak horizontal intrinsic resonances crossed during AGS acceleration. A system speeding up these resonance crossings – the AGS JumpQuad system: 82 tiny (0.04) fast (100usec) betatron tune shifts – has been commissioned and evolved during RHIC Runs 09, 10, and 11. Subtle properties of the AGS geometry and lattice, magnified into relevance by the high vertical tune can result in polarization-damaging emittance growth when combined with the Jump Quad gymnastics. Orbit stability is critical. Some aspects of the JumpQuad system, of this commissioning effort and related developments will be described.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
As the worlds’s first high energy polarized proton col- lider, RHIC has made significant progresses in measuring the proton spin structure in the past decade. In order to have better understanding of the contribution of u quark and d quark to the proton spin structure, collisions of high energy polarized neutron beams are required. In this paper, we discuss the perspectives of accelerating polarized light ions, like deuteron, Helium-3 and tritium. We also repre- sent simulation studies of accelerating polarized Helium-3 in RHIC.
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY 11973
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Stepwise ray-tracing methods are being developed at C-AD, BNL, in view of benchmarking of existing spin codes and of spin dynamics simulations at RHIC. A status of that work is reported here.