R&D towards cooling of the RHIC collider

Author

Ben-Zvit, Ilan ; Brennan, Joseph ; Burrill, A. ; Calaga, Rama ; Chang, Xiangyun ; Citver, Gregory ; Hahn, Harald ; Harrison, Michael ; Hershcovitch, Ady ; Jain, Animesh ; Montag, Christoph ; Fedotov, Alexei ; Kewisch, Joerg ; Mackay, William ; McIntyre, G

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

39

Abstract

We introduce the R&D program for electron-cooling of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). This electron cooler is designed to cool 100 GeV/nucleon bunched-beam ion collider at storage energy using 54 MeV electrons. The electron source will be an RF photocathode gun. The accelerator will be a superconducting energy recovery linac. The frequency of the accelerator is set at 703.75 MHz. The maximum bunch frequency is 28.15 MHz, with bunch charge of 10 nC. The R&D program has the following components: The photoinjector, the superconducting linac, start-to-end beam dynamics with magnetized electrons, electron cooling calculations and development of a large superconducting solenoid.

Keywords

accelerator magnets; colliding beam accelerators; cooling; ion accelerators; linear accelerators; particle beam bunching; particle beam injection; storage rings; superconducting magnets; synchrotrons; 100 GeV; 54 MeV; RF photocathode gun; RHIC cooling; bunched beam ion collider; electron cooling calculations; electron-cooling; large superconducting solenoid; luminosity upgrade; photoinjector; start-to-end beam dynamics; superconducting energy recovery linac; Cathodes; Colliding beam accelerators; Cooling; Electron beams; Electron sources; Energy storage; Ion accelerators; Linear particle accelerator; Radio frequency; Research and development;

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.2003.1288834

Filename

1288834