RHIC Low-Energy Challenges and Plans
Abstract
There is significant interest in RHIC heavy ion collisions at 5--50 GeV, motivated by a search for the QCD phase transition critical point. The lowest energies for this search are well below the nominal RHIC gold injection collision energy of GeV. There are several operations challenges at RHIC in this regime, including longitudinal acceptance, magnet field quality, lattice control, and luminosity monitoring. We report on the status of work to address these challenges, including results from beam tests of low energy RHIC operations with protons and gold, and potential improvements from different beam cooling scenarios.
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@article{arxiv.0710.2485,
title = {RHIC Low-Energy Challenges and Plans},
author = {T. Satogata and L. Ahrens and M. Bai and J. M. Brennan and D. Bruno and J. Butler and A. Drees and A. Fedotov and W. Fischer and M. Harvey and T. Hayes and W. Jappe and R. C. Lee and W. W. MacKay and N. Malitsky and G. Marr and R. Michnoff and B. Oerter and E. Pozdeyev and T. Roser and F. Severino and K. Smith and S. Tepikian and N. Tsoupas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.2485},
year = {2008}
}
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Submitted to the proceedings of the Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement 4th International Workshop, July 9-13 2007, Darmstadt Germany