BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
AES, Princeton, New Jersey
CLASSE, Ithaca
Stony Brook University, StonyBrook
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
In this paper we present status and plans for the 20-MeV R&D energy recovery linac, which is under construction at Collider Accelerator Department at BNL. The facility is based on high current (up to 0.5 A of average current) super-conducting 2.5 MeV RF gun, single-mode super-conducting 5-cell RF linac and about 20-m long return loop with very flexible lattice. The R&D ERL, which is planned for commissioning in 2008, aims to address many outstanding questions relevant for high current, high brightness energy-recovery linacs.
KEK, Ibaraki
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
KEK, Ibaraki
CERN, Geneva
A small angle (< 1mrad) crab scheme is an attractive option for the LHC luminosity upgrade to recover the geometric luminosity loss from the finite crossing angle, which steeply increases to unacceptable levels as the IP beta function is reduced below its nominal value. The crab compensation in the LHC can be accomplished using only two sets of deflecting rf cavities, placed in collision-free straight sections of LHC to nullify the crossing angles at IP1 & IP5. We present IR optics configurations with low-angle crab crossing, study the beam-beam performance and proton-beam emittance growth in the presence of crab compensation, lattice errors, crab RF noise sources. We also explore a 400MHz superconducting cavity design and discuss the pertinent RF challenges.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
We use transverse beam transfer functions to measure tune distributions of colliding beams in RHIC. The tune has a distribution due to the beam-beam interaction, nonlinear magnetic fields – particularly in the interaction region magnets, and non-zero chromaticity in conjunction with momentum spread. The measured tune distributions are compared with calculations.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
LBNL, Berkeley, California
A DC wire has been installed in RHIC to explore the long-range beam-beam effect, and test its compensation. We report on experiments that measure the effect of the wire's electro-magnetic field on the beam's lifetime and tune distribution, and accompanying simulations.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
To achieve the RHIC polarized proton enhanced luminosity goal of 150*1030 cm-2 sec-1 on average in stores at 250 GeV, the luminosity needs to be increased by a factor of 3 compared to what was achieved in 2006. Since the number of bunches is already at its maximum of 111, limited by the injection kickers and the experiments' time resolution, the luminosity can only be increased by either increasing the bunch intensity and/or reducing the beam emittance. This leads to a larger beam-beam tuneshift parameter. Operation during 2006 has shown that the beam-beam interaction is already dominating the luminosity lifetime. To overcome this limitation, a near-integer working point is under study. We will present recent results of these studies.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
One of the key components for the Energy Recovery Linac being built by the Electron cooling group in the Collider Accelerator Department is the 5 cell accelerating cavity which is designed to accelerate 2 MeV electrons from the gun up to 15-20 MeV, allow them to make one pass through the ring and then decelerate them back down to 2 MeV prior to sending them to the dump. This cavity was designed by BNL and fabricated by AES in Medford, NY. Following fabrication it was sent to Thomas Jefferson Lab in VA for chemical processing, testing and assembly into a string assembly suitable for shipment back to BNL and integration into the ERL. The steps involved in this processing sequence will be reviewed and the deviations from processing of similar SRF cavities will be discussed. The lessons learned from this process are documented to help future projects where the scope is different from that normally encountered.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
After the last successful RHIC Au-Au run in 2004 (Run-4), RHIC experiments now require significantly enhanced luminosity to study very rare events in heavy ion collisions. RHIC has demonstrated its capability to operate routinely above its design average luminosity per store of 2x1026 cm-2 s-1. In Run-4 we already achieved 2.5 times the design luminosity in RHIC. This luminosity was achieved with only 40% of bunches filled, and with β* = 1 m. However, the goal is to reach 4 times the design luminosity, 8x1026 cm-2 s-1, by reducing the beta* value and increasing the number of bunches to the accelerator maximum of 111. In addition, the average time in store should be increased by a factor of 1.1 to about 60% of calendar time. We present an overview of the changes that increased the instantaneous luminosity and luminosity lifetime, raised the reliability, and improved the operational efficiency of RHIC Au-Au operations during Run-7.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
AES, Princeton, New Jersey
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
The physics interest in a luminosity upgrade of RHIC requires the development of a cooling-frontier facility. Detailed cooling calculations have been made to determine the efficacy of electron cooling of the stored RHIC beams. This has been followed by beam dynamics simulations to establish the feasibility of creating the necessary electron beam. Electron cooling of RHIC at collisions requires electron beam energy up to about 54 MeV at an average current of between 50 to 100 mA and a particularly bright electron beam. The accelerator chosen to generate this electron beam is a superconducting Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) with a superconducting RF gun with a laser-photocathode. An intensive experimental R&D program engages the various elements of the accelerator: Photocathodes of novel design, superconducting RF electron gun of a particularly high current and low emittance, a very high-current ERL cavity and a demonstration ERL using these components.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
The tight mechanical aperture for the LHC imposes severe constraints on both the beta and dispersion beating. Robust techniques to compensate these errors are critical for operation of high intensity beams in the LHC. We present simulations using realistic errors from magnet measurements and alignment tolerances in the presence of BPM noise. Correction reveals that the use of BPM calibration and model independent observables are key ingredients to accomplish optics correction. Experiments at RHIC to verify the algorithms for optics correction are also presented.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Non-magnetized electron cooling of RHIC requires an electron beam energy of 54.3 MeV, electron charge per bunch of 5 nC, normalized rms beam emittance of 4 mm-mrad, and rms energy spread of 3·10-4 *. In this paper we describe a lattice of a two-pass SCRF energy recovery linac (ERL) and results of a PARMELA simulation that provides electron beam parameters satisfying RHIC electron cooling requirements.
* A. Fedotov, Electron Cooling Studies for RHIC II http://www.bnl.gov/cad/ecooling/docs/PDF/Electron_Cooling.pdf
CERN, Geneva
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
IFIC, Valencia
In recent years several measurements of the SPS non-linear chromaticity have been performed in order to determine the non-linear optics model of the SPS machine at injection energy for different cycles. In 2006 additional measurements have been performed at injection and during the ramp for the cycle used to accelerate the LHC beam. New and more robust matching algorithms have been developed in 2006 to fit the model to the measurements up to arbitrary chromatic order. In this paper we describe the algorithms used in the analysis of the data and we summarize and compare the results from all experiments.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
To further improve the polarized proton (pp) run collision luminosity in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, correction of the horizontal two-third resonance is desirable to increase the available tune space. The third resonance driving term (RTD) is measured with the turn-by-turn (TBT) beam position monitor (BPM) data with AC dipole excitation. A first order RTD response matrix based on the optics model is used to on-line compensate the third resonance driving term h30000 while keeping other first order RTDs and first order chromaticities unchanged. The results of beam experiment and simulation correction are presented and discussed.