SETUP AND PERFORMANCE OF RHIC FOR THE 2008 RUN WITH DEUTERON-GOLD COLLISIONS∗
Christopher J. Gardner, N. P. Abreu, L. Ahrens, James G. Alessi, M. Bai, D. S. Barton, J. Beebe-Wang, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, Kevin A. Brown, D. Bruno, J. Butler, P. Cameron, C. R. Carlson, Roger Connolly, A. Della Penna, A. Drees, Wolfram Fischer, W. Fu, George Ganetis · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2008
This year (2008) deuterons and gold ions were col-lided in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) for the first time since 2003. The setup and performance of the collider for the 2008 run is reviewed with a focus on improvements that have led to an order of magnitude increase in luminosity over that achieved in the 2003 run. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Since the 2003 operating period (Run 3) with d-Au col-lisions [1], there have been two runs with Au-Au collisions (Runs 4 and 7) in 2004 and 2007 [2], a run with Cu-Cu col-