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Robert-Demolaize, G.

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MOPC091 Benchmarking of Collimation Tracking Using RHIC Beam Loss Data 274
 
  • G. Robert-Demolaize, K. A. Drees
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  State-of-the-art tracking tools were recently developed at CERN to study the cleaning efficiency of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collimation system. These tools can be benchmarked using data taken from operations of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) multi-stage collimation system. This article reviews preliminary simulation results on both the location and the intensity of proton losses around the RHIC lattice. Comparison with live measurements from the beam loss monitors are also shown in order to assess the accuracy of the predictions in the LHC case.  
MOPC092 Single Particle Multi-turn Dynamics During Crystal Collimation 277
 
  • G. Robert-Demolaize, K. A. Drees, S. Peggs
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • R. P. Fliller
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  
  As the increase in luminosity remains a high-profile issue for current and future accelerator projects, protecting superconducting magnets from beam induced quenches implies using state-of-the-art halo cleaning devices given the required beam intensities. In CERN's LHC case, a multi-stage collimation system is being set up so as to provide a halo cleaning efficiency up to 99.995%. In order to improve this system even further, US-LARP funded studies have started to appreciate the use of a silicon-based crystal as a primary target for the halo particles. Dedicated experiments have recently been performed in an SPS extraction line for a bent silicon crystal in case of single-pass particles. This article compares the published results of this experiment with simulations using established tracking codes. The goal is to better describe the main physics mechanisms involved in the beam-crystal interaction. A simple algorithm is then introduced to allow for fast tracking of the effect of a crystal on a high energy proton beam over many turns. The general feasibility of single particle, multi-turn crystal experiments at the SPS (CERN) and Tevatron (Fermilab) and their outline are discussed.  
MOPC113 Head-on Beam-beam Compensation with Electron Lenses in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider 328
 
  • Y. Luo, N. P. Abreu, E. N. Beebe, J. Beebe-Wang, C. Montag, M. Okamura, A. I. Pikin, G. Robert-Demolaize
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  The working points for polarized proton operation in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are currently constrained between 2/3 and 7/10, and the beam and luminosity lifetimes are limited by head-on beam-beam effects. To further increase the bunch intensity, we propose a low energy Gaussian electron beam, or electron lens, to collide head-on with the proton beam in order to compensate the large tune shift and tune spread generated by the proton-proton collisions in 2 interaction points. In this article, outline of the RHIC head-on beam-beam compensation with e-lenses and parameters for both proton and electron beams are presented.  
WEPD037 Nb3Sn Quadrupoles in the LHC IR Phase I Upgrade 2491
 
  • A. V. Zlobin, J. A. Johnstone, V. Kashikhin, N. V. Mokhov, I. L. Rakhno
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
  • S. Peggs, G. Robert-Demolaize, P. Wanderer, R. de Maria
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  After some years of operation at nominal parameters, the LHC will be upgraded for higher luminosity. At the present time it is planned to perform the IR upgrade in two phases with the target luminosity for Phase I of ~2.5· 1034 cm-2s-1 and up to 1035 cm-2s-1 for Phase II. In Phase I the baseline 70-mm NbTi low-beta quadrupoles will nominally be replaced with larger aperture NbTi magnets and in Phase II with higher performance Nb3Sn magnets. U. S.-LARP is working on the development of large aperture high-performance Nb3Sn magnet technologies for the LHC Phase II luminosity upgrade. Recent progress also suggests the possibility of using Nb3Sn quadrupoles in the Phase I upgrade, improving the luminosity through an early demonstration of Nb3Sn magnet technology in a real accelerator environment. This paper discusses the possible hybrid optics layouts for Phase I upgrades with both NbTi and Nb3Sn quadrupoles, introducing magnet parameters and issues related to using Nb3Sn quadrupoles including magnet length and aperture limitations, field quality, operation margin, etc. Possible transition scenarios to Phase II are also discussed.  
WEPP002 The Effect of Head-on Beam-beam Compensation on the Stochastic Boundaries and Particle Diffusion in RHIC 2521
 
  • N. P. Abreu, W. Fischer, Y. Luo, G. Robert-Demolaize
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  To compensate the effects from the head-on beam-beam interactions in the polarized proton operation in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an electron lens (e-lens) is proposed to collide head-on with the proton beam. We used an extended version of SixTrack for multiparticle beam-beam simulation in order to study the effect of the e-lens on the stochastic boundary and also on diffusion. The stochastic boundary was analyzed using Lypunov exponents and the diffusion was characterized as the average rms spread of the action after 104 turns. For both studies the simulations were performed with and without the e-lens and with full and partial compensation.  
WEPP011 Setup and Performance of RHIC for the 2008 Run with Deuteron and Gold Collisions 2548
 
  • C. J. Gardner, N. P. Abreu, L. Ahrens, J. G. Alessi, M. Bai, D. S. Barton, J. Beebe-Wang, M. Blaskiewicz, J. M. Brennan, K. A. Brown, D. Bruno, J. J. Butler, P. Cameron, C. Carlson, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, A. J. Della Penna, K. A. Drees, W. Fischer, W. Fu, G. Ganetis, J. W. Glenn, M. Harvey, T. Hayes, H. Huang, P. F. Ingrassia, J. Kewisch, R. C. Lee, V. Litvinenko, Y. Luo, W. W. MacKay, M. Mapes, G. J. Marr, A. Marusic, R. J. Michnoff, C. Montag, J. Morris, B. Oerter, F. C. Pilat, E. Pozdeyev, V. Ptitsyn, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, T. Russo, P. Sampson, J. Sandberg, T. Satogata, C. Schultheiss, F. Severino, K. Smith, D. Steski, S. Tepikian, R. Than, P. Thieberger, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J. E. Tuozzolo, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno, S. Y. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  This year deuterons and gold ions were collided in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for the first time since 2003. The setup and performance of the collider for this run is reviewed with a focus on improvements that have led to an order of magnitude increase in luminosity since the 2003 run.  
WEPP019 RHIC Polarized Proton Performance in Run-8 2566
 
  • C. Montag, N. P. Abreu, L. Ahrens, M. Bai, D. S. Barton, A. Bazilevsky, J. Beebe-Wang, M. Blaskiewicz, J. M. Brennan, K. A. Brown, D. Bruno, G. Bunce, R. Calaga, P. Cameron, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, K. A. Drees, A. V. Fedotov, W. Fischer, G. Ganetis, C. J. Gardner, J. W. Glenn, T. Hayes, H. Huang, P. F. Ingrassia, A. 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, J. Morris, B. Oerter, H. Okada, F. C. Pilat, P. H. Pile, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, T. Russo, T. Satogata, C. Schultheiss, M. Sivertz, K. Smith, S. Tepikian, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J. E. Tuozzolo, A. Zaltsman, A. Zelenski, K. Zeno, S. Y. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  During Run-8, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provided collisions of spin-polarized proton beams at two interaction regions. Helical spin rotators at these two interaction regions were used to control the spin orientation of both beams at the collision points. Physics data were taken with different orientations of the beam polarization. We present recent developments and improvements as well as the luminosity and polarization performance achieved during Run-8.  
THPC062 Multi-Particle Weak-Strong Simulations of RHIC Head-on Beam-Beam Compensation 3125
 
  • Y. Luo, N. P. Abreu, W. Fischer, G. Robert-Demolaize
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  An electron beam has been proposed in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to compensate beam-beam effects in polarized proton collisions. This electron beam will collide head-on with the proton beam. Using the weak-strong beam-beam interaction model, we have carried out six-dimensional multiparticle simulations to investigate the effects of head-on beam-beam compensation. Beam lifetime, transverse emittances, and luminosity are calculated for cases with and without beam-beam compensation for up to 10 million turns. The migrations of particles between different actions and the beam spectrum are also calculated.