Dejan Trbojevic

The RHIC design overview

The salient performance objectives for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are presented and the rationale for the design choices of the major collider systems is conveyed. RHIC provides collisions of heavy ions covering the entire mass range from protons to gold. For the prototypical case of Au-on-Au, one obtains energies up to 100 GeV/n per beam and luminosities of B2 � 10 26 cm � 2 s � 1 , averaged over a 10-h storage time. Operation with polarized protons is also possible. The overall accelerator complex used for gold ions consists of the Tandem Van de Graaff, the Booster, the AGS, and the Collider itself, and the scenario for the beam transfer between machines is described. The two separate collider rings cross at six interaction points, where the lattice design provides low-beta insertions for maximum luminosity. The interaction diamond length of o20 cm rms is achieved by bunched beam operation and holding the 56 bunches in a 197 MHz radio-frequency (RF) system after their acceleration in a 28 MHz RF system. The rings are constructed with superconducting magnets, which have a cold bore aperture of 6.9 cm in the arcs. The RHIC specific design challenges posed by intrabeam scattering of heavy ions, passage through transition energy with slow-ramping superconducting magnets, and control of magnetic errors in the low-beta triplet quadrupoles are addressed. r 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

FFAGS for muon acceleration

Due to their finite lifetime, muons must be accelerated very rapidly. It is challenging to make the magnets ramp fast enough to accelerate in a synchrotron, and accelerating in a linac is very expensive. One can use a recirculating accelerator (like CEBAF), but one needs a different arc for each turn, and this limits the number of turns one can use to accelerate, and therefore requires significant amounts of RF to achieve the desired energy gain. An alternative method for muon acceleration is using a fixed field alternating gradient (FFAG) accelerator. Such an accelerator has a very large energy acceptance (a factor of two or three), allowing one to use the same arc with a magnetic field that is constant over time. Thus, one can in principle make as many turns as one can tolerate due to muon decay, therefore reducing the RF cost without increasing the arc cost. This paper reviews the current status of research into the design of FFAGs for muon acceleration. Several current designs are described and compared. General design considerations are also discussed

R&D towards cooling of the RHIC collider

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.

FFAG lattice without opposite bends

A future neutrino factory or Muon Collider requires fast muon acceleration before the storage ring. Several alternatives for fast muon acceleration have previously been considered. One of them is the FFAG (Fixed Field Alternating Gradient) synchrotron. The FFAG concept was developed in 1952 by K. R. Symon (ref. 1). The advantages of this design are the fixed magnetic field, large range of particle energy, simple RF; power supplies are simple, and there is no transition energy. But a drawback is that reverse bending magnets are included in the configuration; this increases the size and cost of the ring. Recently some modified FFAG lattice designs have been described where the amount of opposite bending was significantly reduced (ref. 2, ref. 3).

Design of the muon collider lattice: Present status

The last component of a muon collider facility, as presently envisioned, is a colliding-beam storage ring. Design studies on various problems for this ring have been in progress over the past year. In this paper we discuss the current status of the design. The projected muon currents require very low beta values at the IP, {beta}* = 3 mm, in order to achieve the design luminosity of L = 10{sup 35} cm{sup -2} s{sup -1}. The beta values in the final-focus quadrupoles are roughly 400 km. To cancel the corresponding chromaticities, sextupole schemes for local correction have been included in the optics of the experimental insertion. The hour-glass effect constraints the bunch length to be comparable too. To obtain such short bunches with reasonable rf voltage requires a very small value of the momentum compaction a, which can be obtained by using flexible momentum compaction (FMC) modules in the arcs. A preliminary design of a complete collider ring has now been made; it uses an experimental insertion and arc modules as well as a utility insertion. The layout of this ring is shown schematically, and its parameters are summarized. Though some engineering features are unrealistic, and the beam performance needsmorexa0» some improvement, we believe that this study can serve as the basis for a workable collider design. The remaining sections of the paper will describe the lattice, show beam behaviour, and discuss future design studies.«xa0less

Experience with low-energy gold-gold operations in RHIC during FY 2010

During Run-10, RHIC operated at several different Au-Au collision energies, as requested mainly by the STAR collaboration in a quest to search for the critical point in the QGP phase diagram. The center-of-mass energies {radical}s{sub NN} are listed in Table 1, together with the respective start and end dates and the duration of the respective run at each energy. While STAR defines low energy as anything below {radical}s{sub NN} = 39 GeV, we focus in the scope of this paper on energies below the regular RHIC injection energy of {radical}s{sub NN} {approx} 20 GeV, since this energy regime is particularly challenging for stable RHIC operations. Figures 1 and 2 show the evolution of beam intensity and luminosity during the course of the {radical}s{sub NN} = 7.7 GeV and 11.5 GeV run. In the following sections we will recapitulate the modifications during the run that led to significant performance improvements, and summarize what was learned at the various energies for possible application in future runs.

Interaction regions with increased low‐betas for a 2‐TeV Muon Collider

The difficulty encountered in designing an interaction region (IR) for a 2‐TeV Muon Collider lies in the extreme constraints placed on beam parameters at the point of collision. This paper examines a relaxation of the interaction‐point criterion insofar as it impacts luminosity, the design, and stability of the interaction region.

RHIC electron detector signal processing design

The RHIC gold beam intensity is presently limited by pressure rise at some warm sections, and the main cause is thought to be the electron cloud. For the FY2003 RHIC run, a system has been installed to characterize the electron cloud, if it exists. The system is comprised of electron detectors, high voltage bias supplies, signal amplifiers, and data acquisition electronics, all integrated into the control system. The 11 detectors are grouped into four locations, one in an interaction region and three in single beam straight sections. This paper describes the signal processing design of the detector system, and includes data collected from the FY2003 run.

Is the momentum space optimally used with the FODO lattices

The available momentum space of a FODO lattice is determined by the maximum value of the dispersion function (δx=Dx ∂p/p). In a regular FODO lattice the dispersion function oscillates between its maximum and minimum values, which are always positive. The maximum value of the dispersion function in a FODO cell of a fixed length depends on the cell phase difference. An example of a new lattice, in which the dispersion function is lowered to half its value in the same FODO cell, is presented. The available momentum space in the new lattice is raised to twice that in the FODO lattice by allowing the dispersion function to oscillate between the same positive and negative values. The maxima of the dispersion function in the new lattice have half the value of those within the regular 90° cells.

Design of a modified Halbach magnet for the CBETA Project

A modified Halbach magnet has been designed to be installed in the splitter/merger section of the CBETA project which is under construction at Cornell University. The splitter/merger of the CBETA consists of 4 beam lines and is shown in Fig. 1. Two of the functions of the splitter/merger lines are; first to match the beam parameters at the exit of the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) to those at the entrance of the Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (FFAG) arc, and second to place the trajectories of the reference particles of the beam bunches at the entrance of the FFAG arc on specified trajectories as they determined by the beam optics of the FFAG arc. In this technical note we present results from the 2D and 3D electromagnetic analysis of the S4.BEN01 magnet which is one of the dipole magnets of the 150 MeV line of the splitter/merger. The present design of the S4.BEN01 magnet, is based on a modified Halbach-type permanent magnet. To justify our suggestion of using a Halbach type of magnet instead of an electromagnet for the S4.BEN01 magnet we devote an APPENDIX A in which we provide details on the design of an electromagnet for the S4.BEN01 magnet and in the section under conclusion will list the pros and cons of the two designs.