LABORATORY Plans towards Higher Laminosill
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ( m C ) is designed PERF0 GE AND LUMINOSITY to provide luminosity over a wide range of beam energies LIMITATIONS and species, including heavy ions, polarized protons, and tric beam collisions. In the first seven years of operation there has been a rapid increase in the achieved peak and average luminosity, substantially exceeding design values. Work is presently underway to achieve the Enhanced Design parameters. Planned major upgrades include the Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS), RHIC-11, and construction of an electron-ion collider (eRHIC). We review the expected RHIC upgrade performance. Electron cooling and its impact on the luminosity both for heavy ions and protons are discussed in detail.
A STRAIGHT SECTION DESIGN IN RHIC TO ALLOW HEAVY ION ELECTRON COOLING
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has been continuously producing exciting results. One of the major luminosity limitations of the present collider is the intra beam scattering. A path towards the higher luminosities requires cooling of the heavy ion beams. Two projects in parallel electron and stochastic cooling are progressing very well. To allow interaction between electrons and the RHIC beams it is necessary to redesign one of the existing interaction regions in RHIC to allow for the longer straight section with fixed and large values of the betatron functions. We present a new design of the interaction region for the electron cooling in RHIC. INRODUCTION RHIC has exceeded designed beam intensities and luminosity requirements during first few years of operation. Unfortunately, as predicted, intrabeam scattering presents a major limitation for luminosity enhancement during heavy ion collisions. The luminosity upgrade requires electron and stochastic cooling to suppress the intrabeam scattering. The average luminosity of the Au 79+ on Au 79+ collisions, should reach ~70 . 10 26 cm –2 s -1
Resonant Auger decay study of C1s -> pi* core-excited OCS
The present work aims at characterizing short-lived C1s((-1)) pi*((1)) core-excited states of the OCS molecule based on the analysis of the vibrational fine structure and lineshape profiles of the high-resolution resonant Auger decay spectra recorded at the excitation energies along the C1s -> pi* resonance in the binding energy region 15-19eV. Very different behavior in terms of lineshape and resonant enhancement is observed for the (A) over tilde, (B) over tilde and (C) over tilde final states. This is explained by (1) the variation in the C-O bond lengths for the states involved in the electronic relaxation and (2) different contributions in terms of Mulliken population to the molecular orbitals determining the electronic character of the corresponding states. Since the final-state geometries are known from a number of previous experiments and ab initio calculations, the geometry of the C1s((-1)) pi*((1)) intermediate states can be predicted in analogy with e.g. the N-2, CO2 and N2O molecules. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (Less)