Commissioning of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Author

Trbojevic, D. ; Ahrens, L. ; Blaskiewicz, M. ; Brennan, M. ; Bai, M. ; Cameron, P. ; Cardona, J. ; Connolly, R. ; de Long, J. ; Drees, A. ; Fliller, R.P. ; Fischer, W. ; Ganetis, G. ; Glenn, W. ; Hahn, H. ; Hayes, T. ; Lehrach, A. ; MacKay, W. ; Kewisch,

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3138

Abstract

This report describes in detail steps performed in bringing the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) from the commissioning into the operational stage when collisions between 60 bunches of fully striped gold ions, were routinely provided. Corrections of the few power supply connections by beam measurements are described. Beam lifetime improvements at injection, along the acceleration are shown. The beam diagnostic results such as the Schottky detector, beam profile monitor, beam position monitors, the tune meter and others, are shown

Keywords

colliding beam accelerators; commissioning; ion accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; particle beam injection; storage rings; RHIC; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; Schottky detector; beam diagnostics; beam lifetime; beam position monitor; beam profile monitor; commissioning; injection; power supplies; tune meter; Acceleration; Extraterrestrial measurements; Gold; Magnets; Monitoring; Orbits; Particle beams; Power measurement; Power supplies; Predictive models;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.988030

Filename

988030