Beam-based alignment in the RHIC e-cooling solenoids

Peter Cameron, Ilan Ben-Zvi, William Craig Dawson, Jorg Kewisch, Vladimir N. Litvinenko, Yun Luo, William W. MacKay, Christoph Montag, Jennifer Niedziela, Vadim Ptitsyn, Todd Satogata, Carl Schultheiss, Vitaly Yakimenko

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Abstract

Accurate alignment of the electron and ion beams in the RHIC electron cooling solenoids is crucial for well-optimized cooling. Because of the greatly differing rigidities of the electron and ion beams, to achieve the specified alignment accuracy it is required that transverse magnetic fields resulting from imperfections in solenoid fabrication be down by five orders of magnitude relative to the pure solenoid fields. Shimming the solenoid field to this accuracy might be accomplished by survey techniques prior to operation with beam, or by methods of beam-based alignment. We report on the details of a method of beam-based alignment, as well as the results of preliminary measurements with the ion beam at RHIC.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Particle Accelerator Conference, PAC 2005
Pages2771-2773
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
EventParticle Accelerator Conference, PAC 2005 - Knoxville, TN, United States
Duration: May 16 2005May 20 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference
Volume2005

Conference

ConferenceParticle Accelerator Conference, PAC 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKnoxville, TN
Period05/16/0505/20/05

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