RHIC and Quark Matter: Proposal for a Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory |
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acceleration aperture assembly baryon beam dump beam loss beam-beam betatron Booster bore tube Breakdown Structure Brookhaven bunch area bunch length compressor construction cooldown correction cost crossing angle crossing point cryogenic cryostat detectors emittance energy density estimated experimental facility field Figure fixed target function GeV/amu gluons gold hadrons HEADER heat shield heavy ion heavy ion collider helium high energy horizontal injection insertion insulating kicker lattice longitudinal luminosity MAGNET DESIGN maximum measurements momentum mrad multipoles nuclei operation orbit parameters particles phase space phase transition plasma power supplies PRODUCTION MAGNET protons Quark Matter quark-gluon plasma quarks and gluons quench Recooler refrigerator rf bucket rf system RHIC ring sec/amu sextant sextupole shown in Fig spool pieces superconducting Table Tandem temperature tion top energy transfer line transition energy trim coil tunnel unicell Van de Graaff voltage window frame yoke