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| MOPCH099 |
Performance and Capabilities of the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory at BNL
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- 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
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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.
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| MOPCH100 |
Polarized Proton Acceleration in the AGS with Two Helical Partial Snakes
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- 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
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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.
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Spin Transport from AGS to RHIC with Two Partial Snakes in AGS
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- W.W. MacKay, A.U. Luccio, N. Tsoupas
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
- J. Takano
RIKEN, Saitama
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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.
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| MOPLS024 |
RHIC Performance as Polarized Proton Collider in Run-6
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- 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
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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.
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