INCREASING THE AGS POLARIZATION

Workshop on Increasing the AGS Polarization

A. D. Krisch, University of Michigan, Spin Physics Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA ; T. Roser, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Collider Accelerator Department, Upton, NY, USA ; A. M. T. Lin, University of Michigan, Spin Physics Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Conference Location and Date: Ann Arbor, Michigan, 6-9 November 2002

Subseries: Accelerators and Beams; Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Published June 2003; ISBN 0-7354-0130-6 One Volume, Print; 125 pages; 6 3/8 X 9 1/4 inches; Hardcover; $120.00

Readership: Accelerator physicists and high energy and nuclear spin physicists.

The Ann Arbor Workshop on Increasing the AGS Polarization discusses the surprising spin effects discovered at lower energy accelerators, making the new multi-hundred-GeV RHIC polarized proton collider especially important. The four Siberian snakes in the two RHIC rings successfully preserved most polarization during acceleration and storage; RHIC's main problem was the low polarization injected from the AGS. The Workshop determined a quick and practical plan for increasing the AGS polarization by using three techniques to overcome the three types of depolarizing resonances.

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