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MOPO022 | Precision Beam Instrumentation and Feedback-Based Beam Control at RHIC | 526 |
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Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. In this report we present advances in beam instrumentation required for feedback-based beam control at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Improved resolution has contributed to enabling now routine acceleration with multiple feedback loops. Better measurement and control of the beam’s properties have allowed acceleration at a new working point and have facilitated challenging experimental studies. |
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TUPZ035 | RHIC Polarized Proton Status and Operation Highlights | 1888 |
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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 |
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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. |
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WEPC093 | Various Approaches to Electromagnetic Field Simulations for RF Cavities | 2226 |
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Funding: Work supported by BMBF under contract 05H09RD5 In the Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL) cavity, there is not only the fundamental mode for the particle acceleration but also many higher order modes (HOMs), which can lead to particle beam instabilities. This is very dangerous for SPL cavity. Therefore it is necessary to simulate the electromagnetic field in the SPL cavity, so that the field distribution and the shunt impedance for every higher order mode can be precisely calculated. At TEMF this research work can be done in three different ways: field simulation with hexahedron mesh in frequency domain, field simulation with hexahedron mesh in time domain and field simulation with tetrahedral mesh and higher order curvilinear elements. Finally the HOM coupler will be considered for the effective damping of higher order modes in the SPL cavity. |
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