Published August 4, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Towards Improved Proton Polarimetry at RHIC

  • 1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 (United States)

Description

The RHIC polarized proton collider polarimeters employ the analyzing power in p-Carbon elastic scattering in the Coulomb Nuclear Interference region to measure the proton beam polarization. These are calibrated by the polarized hydrogen jet target that measures the absolute beam polarization utilizing the pp elastic scattering process in the CNI region. This paper describes the status of these polarimeters and the efforts employed to improve the performance in terms of better resolution, rate handling capability, and reduced systematic uncertainties.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1149
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 727-730
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
18. International Spin Physics Symposium
Acronym
SPIN 2008
Dates
6-11 Oct 2008
Place
Charlottesville, VA (United States)

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(c) 2009 American Institute of Physics