Vadim Ptitsyn

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.

Beam-beam effects of gear changing in ring-ring colliders

In ring-ring colliders, the collision frequency determines the bunch structures, e.g. the time between the bunches in both rings should be identical. Because of relatively low relativistic speed of the hadron beam in sub-TeV hadron-hadron- and electron-ions-colliders, scanning the hadron beams energy would require either a change in the circumference of one of the rings, or a switching of the bunch (harmonic) number in a ring. The later would cause so-called gear-changing, i.e. the change of the colliding bunches turn by turn. In this article, we study the difficulties in beam dynamics in this gear-changing scheme.

Conceptual design of a Polarized Electron Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory

To facilitate the SAC 2015 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science: a high-energy high-luminosity polarized Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) as the highest priority for new facility construction following the completion of FRIB. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is proposing to build a high luminosity electron-hadron collider called e-RHIC which incorporates a new electron synchrotron with the existing Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). A low risk conventional technology based design is being adopted for the majority of the accelerator components. The e-RHIC electron source will produce a highly polarized beam current of up to 50 mA with > 80% polarization at an energy of up to 18 GeV with a luminosity > 1034 cm-2s-1. The prototype e-RHIC beam source is currently under development at BNL and Stony Brook University. This paper presents a conceptual design of the e-RHIC machine, how polarized beam will enhance the physics program and plans to address the remaining challenges associated with the construction of e-RHIC. In order to construct a future electron ion collider with high luminosity, a high average current and high bunch charge polarized electron source is under development at Brookhaven National Laboratory. We present the R&D plan for achieving the required charge and current in the polarized eRHIC gun.. The plan involves developing a large single cathode gun to generate 5.3 nC and 6 mA polarized electrons beam. We report the progress of large cathode prototype gun development, the beam line design and plan for measuring gun charge lifetime for high bunch charge, high current operation.

Study Progress of the Coupling Resonance of the Crab Crossing Scheme in Electron-Ion Collider

Crab crossing scheme is essential collision scheme to achieve high luminosity for the future electron-ion collider (EIC). The bunch length effect of the ion beam cannot be ignored even when cooling is present compared with the wavelength of the crab cavity, therefore, the nonlinear dependence of the crabbing kick may present a challenge to the beam dynamics of the ion beam, hence an impact to the luminosity lifetime. In this paper, we present the result of numerical beam dynamics studies of the crab crossing scheme. The result indicates that there is a special coupling resonance in the nonlinear relation of the crab crossing scheme of the EIC, which dominates the luminosity degradation. And we will discuss the possible remedies for such resonance.

ER@CEBAF, a 7 GeV, 5-Pass, Energy Recovery Experiment

A multiple-pass, high-energy ERL experiment at the JLab CEBAF will be instrumental in providing necessary information and technology testing for a number of possible future applications and facilities such as Linac-Ring based colliders, which have been designed at BNL (eRHIC) and CERN (LHeC), and also drivers for high-energy FELs and 4th GLS. ER@CEBAF is aimed at investigating 6D optics and beam dynamics issues in ERLs, such as synchrotron radiation effects, emittance preservation, stability, beam losses, multiple-pass orbit control/correction, multiple-pass beam dynamics in the presence of cavity HOMs, BBU and other halo studies, handling of large (SR induced) momentum spread bunches, and development of multiple-beam diagnostics instrumentation. Figure 1: 12 GeV CEBAF recirculating linac. Location of chicane and dump line for ER@CEBAF. Since it was launched 2+ years ago, the project has progressed in defining the necessary modifications to CEBAF (Fig. 1, Tab. 1, 2), including a 4-dipole phase chicane in recirculation Arc A, beam extraction and a dump line at the end of the south linac, and additional dedicated multiplebeam diagnostics. This equipment can remain in place to Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy, † and by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DEAC05-06OR23177 with the U.S. Department of Energy. ‡ Spokesperson. fmeot@bnl.gov; satogata@jlab.org Table 1: Machine/Lattice Parameters of ER@CEBAF fRF 1497 MHz RF frequency Elinac 700 MeV Gain per linac (baseline) Einj 79 MeV = Elinac × 123/1090 φFODO 60 deg Per cell, at first NL pass and last SL pass M56 <90 cm Compression, Arc A Extraction 8 deg Angle to dump line

HOM Absorber Study by Photon Diffraction Model

Photon diffraction model (PDM) is one of the most promising candidates to study High Order Mode (HOM) power absorption on absorbing materials for high current SRF cavities. Because at very high frequency (>10GHz), the wavelengths of HOMs are much smaller compared with accelerators dimension, the phase of those HOM will be negligible. Meanwhile, Finite Element Method (FEM) cannot lend a high resolution on evaluation the HOM field patterns due to limited meshing capability. This PDM model utilizes Monte Carlo simulation to trace the ray diffusive reflection in a cavity. This method can directly estimate the power absorption on the cavity and absorber wall. This method will help design the HOM damper setup for eRHIC HOM damper. In this report, we evaluate HOM absorption on the cavity wall with different absorber setup and give a possible solution for power damping scheme for high frequency HOMs.

The Optics of the Low Energy FFAG Cell of the eRHIC Collider Using Realistic Fields

The proposed electron accelerator of the eRHIC complex [1] will use a 1.32 GeV Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) to accelerate the e-bunches to a top energy of 21.2 GeV before they collide with the hadron bunches. The e-bunches attain the 21.2 GeV energy after passing through the ERL 16 times as they recirculate in two rings which are placed alongside the RHIC hadron accelerator. The two rings [1] are made of periodic cells and each cell is made of one focusing and one defocusing permanent magnet qudrupole. In this paper we present the electromagnetic calculations of the 2D and 3D models of a cell which is comprised of two modified Halbach quadrupoles [4], and the optical properties of the cell.