RHIC (for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) is a colliding beam facility to be built at BNL in the tunnel system that was constructed for the defunct ISABELLE/CBA project. It is intended for the study of collisions between fully stripped ions of the same or different species with magnetic rigidities of up to at least 839.5 Tm, corresponding with an energy of 100 GeV/amu (amu for atomic mass unit) for particles with A/Z = 2.5, and 251 GeV for protons. There are six potential crossing regions, each with, initially, time average luminosities of up to a few times 1026 cm−2 sec−1 for Au, with luminosity life-times of 10 hours for Au, and longer for the lighter ions. The initial proton-proton luminosity will be about 1031 cm−2 sec−1. The rms length of the interaction diamond is 0.2 m when the beams collide colinearly, it is determined by the lengths of the colliding bunches. The diamond length can be reduced by having the beams cross at an angle, but this reduces the luminosity. The magnitude of the crossing angle is restricted geometrically in dependence of the energies and species of the interacting ions and possibly also by dynamic effects in the circulating beams. The distance between each crossing point and the nearest machine component is 9 m on each side, this space is available for experimental equipment. The performance quoted assumes that each ring contains 57 bunches, each bunch with 109 Au ions, resp 1011 protons and with invariant emittances of 10.pi., resp 20.pi. mm-mrad, and .beta./sub x/* = .beta./sub y/* = 3 m. The beam-beam tune-shift per crossing point at these intensities is 0.0025, resp 0.0037. 5 refs., 4 figs.

This third open access volume of the handbook series deals with accelerator physics, design, technology and operations, as well as with beam optics, dynamics and diagnostics. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the "Particle Physics Reference Library" provides revised and updated contributions based on previously published material in the well-known Landolt-Boernstein series on particle physics, accelerators and detectors (volumes 21A,B1,B2,C), which took stock of the field approximately one decade ago. Central to this new initiative is publication under full open access.

This volume, consisting of articles written by experts with international repute and long experience, reviews the state of the art of accelerator physics and technologies and the use of accelerators in research, industry and medicine. It covers a wide range of topics, from basic problems concerning the performance of circular and linear accelerators to technical issues and related fields. Also discussed are recent achievements that are of particular interest (such as RF quadrupole acceleration, ion sources and storage rings) and new technologies (such as superconductivity for magnets and RF cavities).The book will interest not only researchers and engineers in the field of accelerator development but also users of accelerators in research and industry. Moreover, teachers giving courses on accelerators and their applications will profit by learning about the most recent achievements and future possibilities.

How does a particle accelerator work? The most direct and intuitive answer focuses on the dynamics of single particles as they travel through an accelerator. Particle accelerators are becoming ever more sophisticated and diverse, from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN to multi-MW linear accelerators and small medical synchrotrons. This self-contained book presents a pedagogical account of the important field of accelerator physics, which has grown rapidly since its inception in the latter half of the last century. Key topics covered include the physics of particle acceleration, collision and beam dynamics, and the engineering considerations intrinsic to the effective construction and operation of particle accelerators. By drawing direct connections between accelerator technology and the parallel development of computational capability, this book offers an accessible introduction to this exciting field at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, accelerator scientists, and engineers.

Particle Accelerator Physics covers the dynamics of relativistic particle beams, basics of particle guidance and focusing, lattice design, characteristics of beam transport systems and circular accelerators. Particle-beam optics is treated in the linear approximation including sextupoles to correct for chromatic aberrations. Perturbations to linear beam dynamics are analyzed in detail and correction measures are discussed, while basic lattice design features and building blocks leading to the design of more complicated beam transport systems and circular accelerators are studied. Characteristics of synchrotron radiation and quantum effects due to the statistical emission of photons on particle trajectories are derived and applied to determine particle-beam parameters. The discussions specifically concentrate on relativistic particle beams and the physics of beam optics in beam transport systems and circular accelerators such as synchrotrons and storage rings. This book forms a broad basis for further, more detailed studies of nonlinear beam dynamics and associated accelerator physics problems, discussed in the subsequent volume.

This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to the field of high-energy particle acceleration and beam dynamics. This is the first modern and comprehensive textbook in the field. It begins by gathering the basic tools, recalling the essentials of electrostatics and electrodynamics as well as of particle dynamics in electromagnetic fields. It includes coverage of advanced topics of coupled beam dynamics. There is an exhaustive treatment of radiation from accelerated charges. Appendices gather useful mathematical and physical formulae, parameters and units, and solutions to the many end-of-chapter problems are given.