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| MOPCH101 | On the Feasibility of a Spin Decoherence Measurement | 276 |
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| In this paper, we study the feasibility of making a turn-by-turn spin measurement to extract the spin tune of a synchrotron from a polarized beam injected perpendicular to the stable spin direction. For the ideal case of a zero-emittance beam with no spin-tune spread, there would be no spin decoherence and a measurement of the spin tune could easily be made by collecting turn-indexed polarization data of several million turns. However, in a real beam there is a momentum spread which provides a tune spread. With a coasting beam the tune spread will cause decoherence of the spins resulting in a fast depolarization of the beam in a thousand turns. With synchrotron oscillations the decoherence time can be greatly increased, so that a measurement becomes feasible with summation of the turn-by-turn data from a reasonable number of bunches (100 or fewer). Both the cases of a single Siberian snake and a pair of Siberian snakes are considered. | ||
| MOPCH102 | A Straight Section Design in RHIC to Allow Heavy Ion Electron Cooling | 279 |
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| The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has been continuously producing exciting results. One of the major luminosity limitations of the present collider is the intra beam scattering. A path towards the higher luminosities requires cooling of the heavy ion beams. Two projects in parallel electron and stochastic cooling are progressing very well. To allow interaction between electrons and the RHIC beams it is necessary to redesign one of the existing interaction regions in RHIC to allow for the longer straight section with fixed and large values of the betatron functions. We present a new design of the interaction region for the electron cooling in RHIC. | ||
| MOPCH100 | Polarized Proton Acceleration in the AGS with Two Helical Partial Snakes | 273 |
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| 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. | ||
| MOPLS022 | On the Feasibility of Polarized Heavy Ions in RHIC | 586 |
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| Heavy nonspherical ions such as uranium have been proposed for collisions in RHIC. When two such ions collide with their long axes aligned, then the plasma density might be as much as 60% higher. Since the collisions might have any orientation of the two nuclei, the alignment of the nuclei must be inferred from a complicated unfolding of multiplicity distributions. Instead, if it is possible to polarize the ions and control the orientation in RHIC, then a much better sensitivity could be obtained. This paper investigates the manipulation of such polarized ions with highly distorted shapes in RHIC. Several ion species are considered as possibilities with either full or partial Siberian snakes in RHIC. | ||
| MOPLS058 | eRHIC - Future Machine for Experiments on Electron-ion Collisions | 676 |
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| The paper presents recent developments for the design of the high luminosity electron-ion collider, eRHIC, proposed on the basis of the existing RHIC machine. The goal of eRHIC is to provide collisions of electrons and positrons on ions and protons in the center-of-mass energy range from 30 to 100 GeV. Lepton beams as well as the beam of protons (and, possibly, light ions) should be polarized. Two independent designs are under development, the so-called 'ring-ring' and 'linac-ring' options. The 'ring-ring' option is based on a 10 GeV electron storage ring. The design issues for the 'ring-ring' option are similar to those at existing B-factories. In the 'linac-ring' option, the electron beam is accelerated in a 10 GeV recirculating energy recovery linac. This option may provide higher luminosities (> 1·1033 cm-2s-1 for e-p collisions), but requires considerable R&D studies for a high current electron polarized source. In order to maximize the collider luminosity, ion ring upgrades, such as electron cooling and ion beam intensity increase, are considered. | ||
| TUPLS125 | Spin Transport from AGS to RHIC with Two Partial Snakes in AGS | 1795 |
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| The stable spin direction in the RHIC rings is vertical. With one or two strong helical Siberian snakes in the AGS, the stable spin direction at extraction is not vertical. Interleaved vertical and horizontal bends in the transport line between AGS and the RHIC rings also tend to tip the spin away from the vertical. In order to preserve polarization in RHIC, we examine several options to improve the matching of the stable spin direction during beam transfer from the AGS to each of the RHIC rings. While the matching is not perfect, the most economical method appears to be a lowering of the injection energy by one unit of G*gamma to 45.5. | ||
| WEPCH152 | Comment on Healy's Symplectification Algorithm | 2281 |
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For long-term tracking, it is important to have symplectic maps for the various electromagnetic elements in an accelerator ring. While many standard elements are handled well by modern tracking programs, new magnet configurations (e.g., a helical dipole with a superimposed solenoid) are being used in real accelerators. Transport matrices and higher terms may be calculated by numerical integration through model-generated or measured field maps. The resulting matrices are most likely not quite symplectic due to numerical errors in the integrators as well as the field maps. In his thesis*, Healy presented a simple algorithm to symplectify a matrix. This paper presents a discussion of limitations of this method.
*L. M. Healy, "Lie Algebraic Methods for Treating Parameter Errors in Particle Accelerators", Doctoral Thesis. University of Maryland, unpublished (1986). |
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| WEPCH153 | Symplectic Interpolation | 2284 |
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| It is important to have symplectic maps for the various electromagnetic elements in an accelerator ring. For some tracking problems we must consider elements which evolve during a ramp. Rather than performing a complicated numerical integration for every turn, it should be possible to integrate the trajectory for a few sets of parameters, and then interpolate the transport map as a function of one or more parameters, such as energy. We present two methods for interpolation of symplectic matrices as a function of parameters: one method is based on the logarithm of the matrix, and the other is based on the related but simpler Healy symplectification method. | ||
| THPCH027 | An Experimental Proposal to Study Heavy-ion Cooling in the AGS due to Beam Gas or the Intrabeam Scattering | 2838 |
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| Low emittance of not-fully-stripped gold(Z=79) Au+77 Helium-like ion beams from the AGS (Alternating Gradient Synchrotron) could be attributed to the cooling phenomenon due to inelastic intrabeam scattering [1]. The low emittance gold beams have always been observed at injection in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). There have been previous attempts to attribute the low emittance to a cooling due to the exchange of energy between ions during the inelastic intrabeam scattering. The Fano-Lichten theory[2] of electron promotion might be applied during inelastic collisions between helium like gold ions in the AGS. During collisions if the ion energy is large enough, a quasi-molecule could be formed, and electron excitation could occur. During de-excitation of electrons, photons are emitted and a loss of total bunch energy could occur. This would lead to smaller beam size. We propose to inject gold ions with two missing electrons into RHIC at injection energy and study the beam behavior with bunched and de-bunched beam, varying the RF voltage and the beam intensity. If the "cooling" is observed additional. | ||
| MOPLS024 | RHIC Performance as Polarized Proton Collider in Run-6 | 592 |
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| 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. | ||
| MOPLS025 | Experience in Reducing Electron Cloud and Dynamic Pressure Rise in Warm and Cold Regions in RHIC | 595 |
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| Significant improvement has been achieved for reducing electron cloud and dynamic pressure rise at RHIC over several years; however, there remain to be factors limiting luminosity. The large scale application of non-evaporable getter (NEG) coating in RHIC has been proven effective in reducing electron multipacting and dynamic pressure rise. This will be reported together with the study of the saturated NEG coatings. Since beams with increased intensity and shorter bunch spacing became possible in operation, the electron cloud effects on beam, such as the emittance growth,are an increasing concern. Observations and studies are reported. We also report the study results relevant to the RHIC electron cloud and pressure rise improvement, such as the effect of anti-grazing ridges on electron cloud in warm sections, and the effect of pre-pumping in cryogenic regions. |