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Brown, K.A.

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MOPCH099 Performance and Capabilities of the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory at BNL 270
 
  • K.A. Brown, L. Ahrens, I.-H. Chiang, C.J. Gardner, D.M. Gassner, L. Hammons, M. Harvey, J. Morris, A. Rusek, P. Sampson, M. Sivertz, N. Tsoupas, K. Zeno
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
 
  The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) at BNL has been in operation since 2003. The first commissioning of the facility took place beginning in October 2002 and the facility became operational in July 2003. The facility was constructed in collaboration with NASA for the purpose of performing radiation effect studies for the NASA space program. The NSRL is capable of making use of protons and heavy ions in the range of 0.05 to 3 GeV/n slow extracted from BNL's AGS Booster. It is also capable of making use of protons and heavy ions fast extracted from the AGS Booster. Many different beam conditions have been produced for experiments at NSRL, including very low intensity In this report we will describe the facility and its' performance over the eight experimental run periods that have taken place since it became operational. We will also describe the current and future capabilities of the NSRL.  
MOPCH100 Polarized Proton Acceleration in the AGS with Two Helical Partial Snakes 273
 
  • H. Huang, L. Ahrens, M. Bai, A. Bravar, K.A. Brown, E.D. Courant, C.J. Gardner, J. Glenn, A.U. Luccio, W.W. MacKay, V. Ptitsyn, T. Roser, S. Tepikian, N. Tsoupas, J. Wood, K. Yip, A. Zelenski, K. Zeno
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • F. Lin
    IUCF, Bloomington, Indiana
  • M. Okamura, J. Takano
    RIKEN, Saitama
 
  Acceleration of polarized protons in the energy range of 5 to 25 GeV is particularly difficult: the depolarizing resonances are strong enough to cause significant depolarization but full Siberian snakes cause intolerably large orbit excursions and it is not feasible in the AGS since straight sections are too short. Recently, two helical partial snakes with double pitch design have been built and installed in the AGS. With careful setup of optics at injection and along the ramp, this combination can eliminate intrinsic and imperfection depolarizing resonances encountered during acceleration. This paper presents the accelerator setup and preliminary results. The effect of horizontal intrinsic resonances in the presence of two partial snakes are also discussed.  
MOPLS024 RHIC Performance as Polarized Proton Collider in Run-6 592
 
  • V. Ptitsyn, L. Ahrens, M. Bai, D.S. Barton, J. Beebe-Wang, M. Blaskiewicz, A. Bravar, J.M. Brennan, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, G. Bunce, R. Calaga, P. Cameron, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, J. DeLong, K.A. Drees, A.V. Fedotov, W. Fischer, G. Ganetis, H. Hahn, T. Hayes, H.-C. Hseuh, H. Huang, P. Ingrassia, D. Kayran, J. Kewisch, R.C. Lee, V. Litvinenko, A.U. Luccio, Y. Luo, W.W. MacKay, Y. Makdisi, N. Malitsky, G.J. Marr, A. Marusic, R.J. Michnoff, C. Montag, J. Morris, T. Nicoletti, B. Oerter, F.C. Pilat, P.H. Pile, T. Roser, T. Russo, J. Sandberg, T. Satogata, C. Schultheiss, S. Tepikian, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, A. Zaltsman, A. Zelenski, K. Zeno, S.Y. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
 
  The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Run-6 was operating in polarized proton mode. With two Siberian Snakes per ring, the polarized protons were brought into collisions at 100 Gev and 31.2 Gev energies. The control of polarization orientation at STAR and PHENIX experiments was done using helical spin rotators. Physics studies were conducted with longitudinal, vertical and radial beam polarization at collision points. This paper presents the performance of RHIC as a polarized proton collider in the Run-6 with emphasis on beam polarization and luminosity issues.  
WEPCH063 Measurements and Modeling of Eddy Current Effects in BNL's AGS Booster 2068
 
  • K.A. Brown, L. Ahrens, C.J. Gardner, J. Glenn, M. Harvey, W. Meng, K. Zeno
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
 
  Recent beam experiments at BNL's AGS Booster have enabled us to study in more detail the effects of eddy currents on the lattice structure and our control over the basic lattice parameters of betatron tune and chromaticity. The Booster is capable of operating at ramp rates as high as 8 T/sec. At these ramp rates eddy currents in the vacuum chambers have significant effects on the fields and gradients seen by the beam as it is accelerated. The Booster was designed with these effects in mind and to help control the field uniformity and linearity in the Booster Dipoles special vacuum chambers were designed with current windings to negate the effect of the induced eddy currents. In this report results from measurements of these effects will be presented. Results from modeling and comparisons to the measurements will also be presented.  
WEPCH065 Lattices for High-power Proton Beam Acceleration and Secondary Beam Collection, Cooling, and Deceleration 2074
 
  • S. Wang
    IHEP Beijing, Beijing
  • K.A. Brown, C.J. Gardner, Y.Y. Lee, D.I. Lowenstein, S. Peggs, N. Simos, J. Wei
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
 
  Rapid-cycling synchrotrons are used to accelerate high-intensity proton beams to energies of tens of GeV for secondary beam production. After primary beam collision with a target, the secondary beam can be collected, cooled, accelerated or decelerated by ancillary synchrotrons for various applications. In this paper, we first present a lattice for the main synchrotron. This lattice has: a) flexible momentum compaction to avoid transition and to facilitate RF gymnastics b) long straight sections for low-loss injection, extraction, and high-efficiency collimation c) dispersion-free straights to avoid longitudinal-transverse coupling, and d) momentum cleaning at locations of large dispersion with missing dipoles. Then, we present a lattice for a cooler ring for the secondary beam. The momentum compaction across half of this ring is near zero, while for the other half it is normal. Thus, bad mixing is minimized while good mixing is maintained for stochastic beam cooling.