Author: White, S.M.
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TUPBA04 AC Dipole Based Optics Measurement and Correction at RHIC 526
 
  • X. Shen, S.-Y. Lee
    IUCEEM, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
  • M. Bai, Y. Luo, A. Marusic, G. Robert-Demolaize, S.M. White
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • R. Tomás
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Independent component analysis (ICA) was applied to the AC dipole based optics measurement at RHIC to extract beta functions as well as phase advances at each BPM. Existence of excessive beta-beat was observed in both rings of RHIC at store energy. A unique global optics correction scheme was then developed and tested successfully during the RHIC polarized proton run in 2013. The feasibility of using closed orbit bump and sextupole for arc beta-beat correction was also demonstrated. The technique and experimental results of optics correction are reported in this paper.
 
 
TUPBA07 Dynamic Aperture Maximization with Head-on Beam-beam Compensation in RHIC 535
 
  • Y. Luo, W. Fischer, S.M. White
    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 minimize the large beam-beam tune spread and to reduce the beam-beam nonlinear resonance driving terms, two electron lenses are being installed in the RHIC tunnel for head-on beam-beam compensation. In this article we discuss the approaches to maximize the proton dynamic aperture by adjusting the phase advances between beam-beam interaction points, and the phase advances between the beam-beam interaction points and the electron lenses, and by choosing different β*s at the beam-beam interaction points.