Accelerator Physics Notes

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During my initial years at BNL, I worked partly on accelerator physics topics. Later, I also supported and collaborated with accelerator physicists. These notes and papers summarize that work (1984-2017):

  1. Gupta, R., Methods of Designing a Synchrotron Lattice with High Transition Energy, MS Thesis, TRIUMF, Feb 1984.
  2. Gupta, Ramesh C., Methods of Designing a Synchrotrons with High Transition Energy, August 1983.
  3. Gupta, Ramesh C., M.K., Straight Section Design, August 1983.
  4. Gupta, R.C., Craddock, M.K., Fast Extraction from the 30 GeV Synchrotron, August 1983.
  5. Gupta, R., Lee, Y.Y.  The Heavy Ion Injection Line for the AGS Booster.  BNL AD Technical Note No. 238 (February 1986).  [BNL-104661-2014-IR]  http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/85461.pdf
  6. Gupta, R., Lee, Y.Y.  The Heavy Ion Injection Line for the AGS Booster.  BNL AD Booster Technical Note No. 7 (February 1986).  [BNL-105055-2014-IR]  http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/85858.pdf
  7. Gupta, R., Damm, R.; Lee, Y.Y.; Weng, W.T.  H– and heavy ion injection lines for the Booster.  BNL AD Booster Technical Note No. 90 (September 1987).   [BNL-105137-2014-IR]  http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/85940.pdf
  8. Gupta, R., Lee, S.Y., Lee, Y.Y., Zhao, F.  Transfer Line Between the Booster and the AGS.  BNL AD Booster Technical Note No. 16 (March 1986).  [BNL-105063-2014-IR]  http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/85866.pdf
  9. MacKay, W., Anerella, M.; Courant, E.; Escallier, J.; Fisher, W.; Ganetis, G.; Ghosh, A.; Gupta, R.; Jain, A.; Kelly, E.; Luccio, A.; Marone, A.; Morgan, G.; Muratore, J.; Okamura, M.; Ptitsin, V.; Prodell, A.; Roser, T.; Tepikian, S.; Syphers, M.; Wanderer, P.; Willen, E.  Superconducting Helical Snake Magnets: Construction and Measurements.  BNL AGS/RHIC/SN #80 (August 1999).  [BNL-103705-2014-IR] http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/84498.pdf
  10. Brown, K., Bunce, G.; Courant, E.; Fernow, R.; Gupta, R.; Lee, S.Y.; Luccio, A.; Makdisi, Y.; Peggs, S.; Pilat, F.; Ptitsin, V.; Ratner, L.; Roser, T.; Tsoupas, N.; Shatunov, Yu.; Spinka, H.; Syphers, M.; Tepikian, S.; Ufimstev, A.G.; Underwood, D.; Willen, E. Conceptual Design for the Acceleration of Polarized Protons in RHIC.  BNL AGS/RHIC/SN #001 (January 1996).  [BNL-103627-2014-IR]  http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/84420.pdf
  11. Luccio, A., Gupta, R.; MacKay, W.W.; Roser, T.  Cold AGS Snake Optimization by Modeling.  BNL C-A/AP#128 (December 2003).  [BNL-99280-2013-IR]  http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/79947.pdf
  12. Gu, X., Pikin, A.; Okamura, M.; Fischer, W.; Luo, Y.; Gupta, R.; Hock, J.; Jain, A.; Raparia, D.  RHIC electron lens beam transport system design considerations.  BNL C-A/AP#409 (October 2010).  [BNL-94318-2010-IR]  http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/74547.pdf
  13. Fischer, W., Luo, Y., Pikin, A., Beebe, E., Bruno, D., Gassner, D., Gu, X., Guupta, R.C., Hock,J., Jain, A., Lambiase, R., Mapes,M., Meng, W., Montag, C.,Oerter, B., Okamura, M., Raparia, D., Tan,Y., Than, R., Tuozzolo, J., Zhang, W.  Head-on beam-beam compensation in RHIC, ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletter, Vol., 52, pp. 102-107 (2010).  [KB-02-01-011, BNL-93849-2010-NE]  http://icfa-usa.jlab.org/archive/newsletter/icfa_bd_nl_52.pdf
  14. Luo, Y., Heimerle, M., Fischer, W., Pikin, A., Beebe, E., Bruno, D., Gassner, D., Gu, X., Gupta, R.C., Hock, J., Jain, A., Lambiase, R., Mapes, M., Meng, W., Montag, C., Oerter, B., Okamura, M., Raparia, D., Tan, Y., Than, R., Tuozzolo, J., Zhang, W.  RHIC Electron Lens Beam Transport System Design Considerations.  ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletter, Vol., 52 (2010).  [KB-02-01-011; BNL-93865-2010-NE] http://icfa-usa.jlab.org/archive/newsletter/icfa_bd_nl_52.pdf
  15. Gu, X., Luo, Y., Pikin, A., Okamura, M., Fischer, W., Montag, C., Gupta, R., Hock, J., Jain, A., Raparia, D.  Effect of the Electron Lenses on the RHIC Proton Beam Closed Orbit.  BNL C-A/AP#424 (February 2011).  [BNL-94679-2011-IR]  http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/74938.pdf
  16. Fischer, W., Altinbas, Z., Anerella, M., Beebe, E.N., Blaskiewicz, M., Bruno, d., Dawson, W.C., Gassner, D.M., Gu, X., Gupta, R.C., Hamdi, K., Hock, J., Hoff, L.T., Jain, A.K., Lambiase, R.F., Luo, Y., Mapes, M., Marone, A., Miller, T.A., Minty, M.G., Montag, C., Okamura, M., Pikin, A.I., Plate, S.R., Raparia, D., Tan, Y., Theisen, C., Thieberger, P., Tuozzolo, J.E., Wanderer, P., White, S.M., Zhang, W.  Construction Progress of the RHIC Electron Lenses. International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’12), New Orleans, LA, May 21-25, 2012, http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/IPAC2012/talks/weoba01_talk.pdf
  17. Méot, F., Gupta, R., Huang, H., Tsoupas, N.  Where are the AGS Snakes?  BNL C-A/AP/485 (July 2013).  [BNL-101458-2013-IR] http://www.bnl.gov/isd/documents/82191.pdf