BNL, Upton, New York, USA
As part of the Beam Energy Scan (BES) physics program, RHIC operated in Fixed Target mode at various beam energies in 2020. The fixed target experiment, achieved by scraping the beam halo of the circulating beam on a gold ring inserted in the beam pipe upstream of the experimental detectors, extends the range of the center-of-mass energy for BES. The machine configuration, control of rates, and results of the fixed target experiment operation in 2020 will be presented in this report.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
RHIC provided Au-Au collisions at beam energies of 5.75 and 4.59 GeV/nucleon for the physics program in 2020 as a part of the Beam Energy Scan II experiment. The operational experience at these energies will be reported with emphasis on their unique features. These unique features include the addition of a third harmonic RF system to enable a large longitudinal acceptance at 5.75 GeV/nucleon, the application of additional lower frequency cavities for alleviating space charge effects, and the world-first operation of cooling with an RF-accelerated bunched electron beam.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
In order to minimize the systematic errors for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) spin physics experiments, flipping the spin of each bunch of protons during the stores is needed. Experiments done with single RF magnet at energies less than 2 GeV have demonstrated a spin-flip efficiency over 99%. At high energy colliders with Siberian snakes, a single magnet spin flipper does not work because of the large spin tune spread and the generation of multiple, overlapping resonances. Over past decade, RHIC spin flipper design has evolved and a sophisticated spin flipper, constructed of nine-dipole magnets, was developed to flip the spin in RHIC. A special optics choice was also used to make the spin tune spread very small. In recent experiment, 97% spin-flip efficiency was measured at both 24 and 255 GeV for the first time. The results show that efficient spin flipping can be achieved at high energies.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
The physics program in the EIC calls for polarized neutron beam at high energies. The best neutron carriers are 3He nuclei and deuterons. Both neutron carries are expected to be used by spin physics program in the EIC. Due to the small magnetic moment anomaly of deuteron particles, much higher magnetic fields are required for spin rotation, so full Siberian snake is not feasible. However, the resonance strength is in general weak and the number of resonances is also small. It is possible to deal with individual resonances with conventional methods, such as betatron tune jump for intrinsic depolarizing resonances; and a weak partial snakes for imperfection resonances. The study shows that accelerating polarized deuteron beyond 100GeV/n is possible in the EIC.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
In recent years, RHIC physics program calls for gold beam collisions with energies at and lower than the nominal RHIC injection energy. To get shorter bunches at the three higher energies (9.8GeV/c, 7.3GeV/c and 4.75GeV/c), RHIC 28MHz cavities were used. The longitudinal emittance out of injectors needs to fit in the 28MHz cavities in RHIC. At two lower energies (4.6 and 3.85 GeV/c), the 9MHz RF cavities were used, which set different requirements from injectors. Extensive beam studies were carried out to establish needed beam parameters, such as bunch intensities and longitudinal emittances. In general, enough intensity can be provided for all energies within the longitudinal emittance constraint. This paper summarizes the recent injector operation experiences for various energies.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
As part of the effort to increase the polarization of the proton beam for the physics experiments at RHIC, a scan of orbit harmonic corrector strengths is performed in the Booster to ensure polarization transmission through the |G gamma|=3 and 4 imperfection resonances is optimized. These harmonic scans have been simulated using quadrupole alignment data and accurately match experimental data. The method used to simulate polarized protons is extended to polarized helions for crossing the |G gamma|=5 through |G gamma|=10 imperfection resonances and used to determine the corrector strength required to cross each resonance.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
Polarized helions are part of the physics program for the future EIC. An AC dipole has been installed in the AGS Booster to preserve polarization as helions are accelerated to |Ggamma|=10.5. Extraction from the AGS Booster at |Ggamma|=7.5 is possible but: would involve crossing an intrinsic resonance in the AGS, and would be the lowest rigidity beam injected into the AGS, and therefore experiences strong distortions of the optical functions because of the AGS two partial snakes. This lower rigidity would exacerbate the optical distortions from the snake, reducing the dynamic aperture. A comparison of the dynamic aperture of protons at Ggamma=4.5 to that of helions at |Ggamma|=7.5 and |Ggamma|=10.5 show that extraction at |Ggamma|=10.5 provides a larger dynamic aperture. This larger aperture would allow helions to be placed inside the spin tune gap generated by the two partial helices in AGS earlier in the cycle.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
The electron-ion luminosity in EIC has a number of limits, including the ion intensity available from the injectors, the total ion beam current, the electron bunch intensity, the total electron current, the synchrotron radiation power, the beam-beam effect, the achievable beta functions at the interaction points (IPs), the maximum angular spreads at the IP, the ion emittances reachable with stochastic or strong cooling, the ratio of horizontal to vertical emittance, and space charge effects. We map the e-A luminosity over the center-of-mass energy range for some ions ranging from deuterons to uranium ions. For e-Au collisions the present design provides for electron-nucleon (e-Au) peak luminosities of 1.7x1033 cm-2s−1 with stochastic cooling, and 4.7x1033 cm-2s−1 with strong hadron cooling.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The design of the electron-ion collider EIC to be constructed at Brookhaven National Laboratory has been continuously evolving towards a realistic and robust design that meets all the requirements set forth by the nuclear physics community in the White Paper. Over the past year activities have been focused on maturing the design, and on developing alternatives to mitigate risk. These include improvements of the interaction region design as well as modifications of the hadron ring vacuum system to accommodate the high average and peak beam currents. Beam dynamics studies have been performed to determine and optimize the dynamic aperture in the two collider rings and the beam-beam performance. We will present the EIC design with a focus on recent developments.
BNL, Upton, New York, USA
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Polarization lifetime for He3 using two and six snakes are studied using the T-BMT Spin Resonance Tracker code. This code integrates a reduced spinor form of the T-BMT equation including only several spin resonances and the kinematics of synchrotron motion. It was previously benchmarked against RHIC polarization lifetime under the two snake system *.
* Phys. Rev.Accel. Beams 22 (2019) 9, 091001