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https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST031
Title RHIC Polarized Proton Operation in Run 22
Authors
  • V. Schoefer, E.C. Aschenauer, D. Bruno, K.A. Drees, W. Fischer, C.J. Gardner, K. Hockpresenter, H. Huang, R.L. Hulsart, C. Liu, Y. Luo, I. Marneris, G.J. Marr, A. Marusic, F. Méot, K. Mernick, R.J. Michnoff, M.G. Minty, J. Morris, A. Poblaguev, V. Ptitsyn, V.H. Ranjbar, D. Raparia, G. Robert-Demolaize, J. Sandberg, W.B. Schmidke, F. Severino, T.C. Shrey, P. Thieberger, J.E. Tuozzolo, M. Valette, K. Yip, A. Zaltsman, A. Zelenski, K. Zeno
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
Abstract The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) Run 22 physics program consisted of collisions with vertically po- larized proton beams at a single collision point (the STAR detector). During initial startup of the collider, power out- ages damaged two of the coils in one of the RHIC helical dipole snake magnets used for polarization preservation in the Blue ring. That snake was reconfigured for use as a partial snake. We will outline some of the remediating mea- sures taken to maximize polarization transmission in this configuration. These measures included changing the col- liding beam energy from 255 GeV to 254.2 GeV to adjust the spin closed orbit at store and adjustment of the field in the other helical dipole in the Blue ring to improve injection spin matching. Later in the run, the primary motor gener- ator for the AGS (the injector to RHIC) failed and a lower voltage backup had to be used, resulting in a period of lower polarization. Other efforts include detailed measurement of the stable spin direction at store and the commissioning of a machine protection relay system to prevent spurious firing of the RHIC abort kickers.
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Conference IPAC2022
Series International Particle Accelerator Conference (13th)
Location Bangkok, Thailand
Date 12-17 June 2022
Publisher JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Board Frank Zimmermann (CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland); Hitoshi Tanaka (RIKEN, Hyogo, Japan); Porntip Sudmuang (SRLI, Nakhon, Thailand); Prapong Klysubun (SRLI, Nakhon, Thailand); Prapaiwan Sunwong (SRLI, Nakhon, Thailand); Thakonwat Chanwattana (SRLI, Nakhon, Thailand); Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz (CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
Online ISBN 978-3-95450-227-1
Online ISSN 2673-5490
Received 08 June 2022
Revised 14 June 2022
Accepted 16 June 2022
Issue Date 04 July 2022
DOI doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST031
Pages 1765-1767
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