RHIC status and plans

Author

Roser, Thomas

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

24

Abstract

RHIC is the first hadron accelerator and collider consisting of two independent rings. It is designed to operate over a wide range of beam energies and with particle species ranging from polarized protons to heavy ions. Machine operation and performance will be reviewed that includes gold-on-gold collisions at design beam energy (100 GeV/u), first high energy polarized proton-proton collisions (100 GeV on 100 GeV) as well as first asymmetric operation of RHIC to produce deuteron-on-gold collisions. Plans for future luminosity upgrades will also be presented.

Keywords

colliding beam accelerators; ion accelerators; proton accelerators; storage rings; synchrotrons; 100 GeV; RHIC; asymmetric operation; deuteron-on-gold collisions; future luminosity upgrades; gold-on-gold collisions; hadron accelerator; hadron collider; independent rings; machine operation; machine performance; polarized proton-proton collisions; Acceleration; Colliding beam accelerators; Colliding beam devices; Gold; Ion accelerators; Laboratories; Particle accelerators; Particle beams; Polarization; Proton accelerators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1288831

Filename

1288831