title: Operational Head-on Beam-Beam Compensation with Electron Lenses in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
abstract: Head-on beam-beam compensation has been implemented in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in order to increase the luminosity delivered to the experiments. We discuss the principle of combining a lattice for resonance driving term compensation and an electron lens for tune spread compensation. We describe the electron lens technology and its operational use. To date, the implemented compensation scheme approximately doubled the peak and average luminosities.
authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
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authors.affiliation: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, BP 220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex, France.
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