THE RHIC ACCELERATOR

M Harrison, S Peggs, T Roser - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This review discusses the design and initial operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collider (RHIC), noting the novel features of a heavy ion collider that are distinct from …

Spin-polarized charged particle beams in high-energy accelerators

SR Mane, YM Shatunov, K Yokoya - Reports on Progress in …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive survey of the dynamics of spin-polarized beams in high-
energy particle accelerators. A major theme of this review is to clarify the distinction between …

Siberian snakes, figure-8 and spin transparency techniques for high precision experiments with polarized hadron beams in colliders

YS Derbenev, YN Filatov, AM Kondratenko… - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
We present a review of the possibilities to conduct experiments of high efficiency in the
nuclear and high energy physics with spin-polarized beams in a collider complex …

High spin-flip efficiency at 255 GeV for polarized protons in a ring with two full Siberian snakes

H Huang, J Kewisch, C Liu, A Marusic, W Meng… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
In polarized proton collision experiments, it is highly advantageous to flip the spin of each
bunch of protons during the stores to reduce the systematic errors. Experiments done at …

First spin flipping of a stored spin-1 polarized beam

VS Morozov, ZB Etienne, MC Kandes, AD Krisch… - Physical review …, 2003 - APS
We recently studied spin flipping of a 270 MeV vertically polarized deuteron beam stored in
the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility Cooler Ring. We adiabatically swept an rf solenoid's …

Unexpected reduction of rf spin resonance strength for stored deuteron beams

AD Krisch, MA Leonova, VS Morozov… - Physical Review Special …, 2007 - APS
Stored beams of polarized protons, electrons, or deuterons can be spin flipped by sweeping
an rf dipole's or solenoid's frequency through an rf spin resonance. Fitting such data to the …

Unexpected enhancements and reductions of rf spin resonance strengths

MA Leonova, VS Morozov, AD Krisch… - Physical Review Special …, 2006 - APS
We recently analyzed all available data on spin-flipping stored beams of polarized protons,
electrons, and deuterons. Fitting the modified Froissart-Stora equation to the measured …

Spin manipulation of polarized protons stored in the COSY cooler synchrotron

VS Morozov, AD Krisch, MA Leonova… - Physical Review Special …, 2004 - APS
We recently studied spin flipping of a 1.94 GeV/c vertically polarized proton beam at COSY
in Jülich, Germany. We swept an rf-dipole's frequency through an rf-induced spin resonance …

Achieving 99.9% proton spin-flip efficiency at higher energy with a small rf dipole

MA Leonova, AD Krisch, VS Morozov, RS Raymond… - Physical review …, 2004 - APS
We recently used a new ferrite rf dipole to study spin flipping of a 2.1 G e V/c vertically
polarized proton beam stored in the COSY Cooler Synchrotron in Jülich, Germany. We …

Spin manipulating stored vector and tensor polarized spin-1 bosons

VS Morozov, AD Krisch, MA Leonova… - Physical Review Special …, 2005 - APS
We recently studied the spin manipulation of 1.85 GeV/c vertically polarized deuterons
stored in the COSY cooler synchrotron. We adiabatically swept an rf dipole's frequency …