Author: Blaskiewicz, M.
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TUYA03 Stochastic Cooling of a High Energy Collider 913
 
  • M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, R.C. Lee, K. Mernick
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Three dimensional stochastic cooling was successfully implemented at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider to overcome emittance growth from intra-beam scattering. The talk reports on the experience of operating a collider with continuous cooling. The application of such techniques to other hadron machine (e.g. LHC) will be discussed.  
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TUPZ035 RHIC Polarized Proton Status and Operation Highlights 1888
 
  • H. Huang, L. A. Ahrens, I.G. Alekseev, E.C. Aschenauer, G. Atoian, M. Bai, A. Bazilevsky, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, A. Dion, K.A. Drees, W. Fischer, J.W. Glenn, X. Gu, L.T. Hoff, C. Liu, Y. Luo, W.W. MacKay, Y. Makdisi, G.J. Marr, A. Marusic, F. Méot, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, J. Morris, A. Poblaguev, V. Ptitsyn, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, W.B. Schmidke, V. Schoefer, D. Smirnov, S. Tepikian, J.E. Tuozzolo, G. Wang, K. Yip, A. Zaltsman, A. Zelenski, S.Y. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • D. Svirida
    ITEP, Moscow, Russia
 
  RHIC op­er­a­tion as the po­lar­ized pro­ton col­lid­er pre­sents unique chal­lenges since both lu­mi­nos­i­ty and spin po­lar­iza­tion are im­por­tant. A lot of up­grades and mod­i­fi­ca­tions have been made since last po­lar­ized pro­ton op­er­a­tion. A 9 MHz rf sys­tem has been in­stalled to im­prove lon­gi­tu­di­nal match at in­jec­tion and to in­crease lu­mi­nos­i­ty. A ver­ti­cal sur­vey of RHIC was per­formed be­fore the run to get bet­ter mag­net align­ment. The orbit con­trol has also been im­proved this year. AGS po­lar­iza­tion trans­fer ef­fi­cien­cy is improved by a horizontal tune jump system. To pre­serve po­lar­iza­tion on the ramp, a new work­ing point was cho­sen with the ver­ti­cal tune near a third order res­o­nance. The orbit and tune control are essential for polarization preservation. To calibrate the polarization level at 250 GeV, polarized protons were accelerated up to 250GeV and decelerated back to 100GeV. The tune, orbit and chromaticity feedback is essential for this operation. The new record of luminosity was achieved with higher polarization at 250 GeV in this run. The overview of the changes and op­er­a­tion re­sults are pre­sent­ed in this paper.  
 
TUPZ038 RHIC Performance for FY2011 Au+Au Heavy Ion Run 1894
 
  • G.J. Marr, L. A. Ahrens, M. Bai, J. Beebe-Wang, I. Blackler, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, K.A. Brown, D. Bruno, J.J. Butler, C. Carlson, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, K.A. Drees, A.V. Fedotov, W. Fischer, W. Fu, C.J. Gardner, D.M. Gassner, J.W. Glenn, X. Gu, M. Harvey, T. Hayes, L.T. Hoff, H. Huang, P.F. Ingrassia, J.P. Jamilkowski, N.A. Kling, M. Lafky, J.S. Laster, C. Liu, Y. Luo, M. Mapes, A. Marusic, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, J. Morris, C. Naylor, S. Nemesure, S. Polizzo, V. Ptitsyn, G. Robert-Demolaize, T. Roser, P. Sampson, J. Sandberg, V. Schoefer, C. Schultheiss, F. Severino, T.C. Shrey, K.S. Smith, D. Steski, S. Tepikian, P. Thieberger, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, B. Van Kuik, G. Wang, M. Wilinski, A. Zaltsman, K. Zeno, S.Y. Zhang
    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.
Following the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 (Run-10) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Au+Au run [1], RHIC experiment upgrades sought to improve detector capabilities. In turn, accelerator improvements were made to improve the luminosity available to the experiments for this run (Run-11). These improvements included: a redesign of the stochastic cooling systems for improved reliability; a relocation of “common” RF cavities to alleviate intensity limits due to beam loading; and an improved usage of feedback systems to control orbit, tune and coupling during energy ramps as well as while colliding at top energy. We present an overview of changes to the Collider and review the performance of the collider with respect to instantaneous and integrated luminosity goals.
 
 
WEPS028 Lattice Design of a Rapid Cycling Medical Synchrotron for Carbon/Proton Therapy 2541
 
  • D. Trbojevic, J.G. Alessi, M. Blaskiewicz, C. Cullen, H. Hahn, D.I. Lowenstein, I. Marneris, W. Meng, J.-L. Mi, C. Pai, D. Raparia, A. Rusek, J. Sandberg, N. Tsoupas, J.E. Tuozzolo, A. Zaltsman, W. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • N.M. Cook
    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
  • J.P. Lidestri
    HHMI, New York, USA
  • M. Okamura
    RBRC, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • S. Peggs
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
 
  Funding: Work supported by Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), No. BNL-C-10-03 between the Brookhaven National Laboratory and Best Medical International, Inc.
We present a design of the ion Rapid Cycling Medical Synchrotron (iRCMS) for carbon/proton cancer therapy facility. The facility design, produced at Brookhaven National Accelerator (BNL) at the Collider Accelerator Division (CAD) for the BEST Medical International, Inc., will be able to treat the cancer patients with carbon, lighter ions and protons. The low energy part accelerates ions and protons to the kinetic energy of 8 MeV. It consists of two ion sources (one of fully stripped carbon ions and one for protons), a Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) and linac. The 8 GeV beam is injected into a fast cycling synchrotron (iRCMS). The lattice design is a racetrack, with zero dispersion two parallel straight sections. There are 24 combined function magnets in the two arcs with a radius of ~5.6 meters with maximum magnetic field of less than 1.3 T. The acceleration is performed in 30 Hz up to the required energy for the cancer tumor treatment assuming the spot scanning technique. The maximum energy for carbon ions is 400 MeV. Ions are extracted in a single turn and fed to different beam lines for patient treatment.