RHICfest

Name: RHICfest
Start: 2026-07-09T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-10T17:00:00-04:00
Location: BNL

9 Jul 2026, 08:00 → 10 Jul 2026, 17:00 US/Eastern

Science & User Support Center (SUSC) (BNL)

Science & User Support Center (SUSC)

BNL

Building 101

Stephen Peggs (BNL)

Description

Join us for RHICfest on July 9-10, 2026 at BNL's Science & User Support Center (SUSC), Bldg. 101, to survey and celebrate RHIC's accelerator physics and engineering legacy

- Unmatched beam flexibility & performance
- Technical innovations & advances
- Alumni and retiree communities

A no-host dinner will be held on Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 6 p.m. (location to be decided).

Please register for attendance in-person or virtually and also for dinner.

Zoom link will be provided at a later date.

Registration

Participants

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Thursday 9 July
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 08:30
  
  Continental Breakfast
- 09:00
  
  Welcome - Abhay Deshpande
- Unmatched beam flexibility & performance
  
  Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
  - 1
    
    The heavy ion story
    
    Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)
  - 2
    
    Optics flexibility and pre-history
    
    Speaker: Steven Tepikian (BNL)
  - 3
    
    The polarization story
    
    Speaker: Thomas Roser (BNL)
  - 10:35
    
    Coffee Break
  - 4
    
    Bunched beam stochastic cooling
    
    Speaker: Michael Blaskiewicz (BNL)
  - 5
    
    RF-based electron cooling
    
    Speaker: Alexei Fedotov (BNL)
- 12:00
  
  No Host Lunch (Food truck will be available)
- Commissioning: early experience
  
  Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
  - 6
    
    Prolog: from ADD to RHIC (Remote)
    
    Speaker: Jie Wei (MSU)
  - 7
    
    Building and commissioning RHIC
    
    Speaker: Dejan Trbojevic (BNL)
  - 8
    
    First orbit, first collisions
    
    Speaker: Todd Satogata (JLAB)
  - 9
    
    1 eVs or bust / whatever happened to Band One?
    
    Speaker: Mike Brennan (BNL)
  - 10
    
    Collisions, collimators & correctors
    
    Speaker: Angelica Drees (BNL)
  - 14:15
    
    Coffee Break & Group Photograph
  - 11
    
    How to tame a snake
    
    Speaker: Vadim Ptitsyn (BNL)
  - 12
    
    Polarimetry
    
    Speaker: Haixin Huang (BNL)
  - 13
    
    Decoupling, nonlinear correction and other strange activities
    
    Speaker: Fulvia Pilat (ORNL)
  - 14
    
    TBD
    
    Speaker: Mei Bai (SLAC)
  - 15
    
    TBD (Remote)
    
    Speaker: Michael Harrison (BNL)
  - 16
    
    Epilog: from RHIC to eRHIC
    
    Speaker: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
- 16:15
  
  Open Discussion
- 18:00
  
  No Host Dinner
Friday 10 July
- Thu 9 Jul
- Fri 10 Jul
- 08:30
  
  Continental Breakfast
- Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 1
  
  Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
  - 17
    
    Operational performance & reflections on recent developments
    
    Speaker: Michiko Minty (BNL)
  - 18
    
    Ion sources
    
    Speaker: Deepak Raparia (BNL)
  - 19
    
    Booster
    
    Speaker: Kiel Hock (BNL)
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee break
  - 20
    
    AGS: From strong focusing to strong physics
    
    Speaker: Vincent Schoefer (BNL)
  - 21
    
    Mechanical systems
    
    Speaker: Joseph Tuozzolo (BNL)
- 12:00
  
  No Host Lunch
- Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 2
  
  Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)
  - 22
    
    Power supplies
    
    Speaker: George Ganetis (BNL)
  - 23
    
    Superconducting magnets
    
    Speaker: Michael Anerella (BNL)
  - 24
    
    Radio Frequency
    
    Speaker: Freddy Severino (BNL)
  - 14:30
    
    Coffee Break
  - 25
    
    Vacuum
    
    Speaker: Dan Weiss (BNL)
  - 26
    
    Operations
    
    Speaker: Gregory Marr (BNL)
  - 27
    
    Cryogenics
    
    Speaker: Roberto Than (BNL)
- 16:30
  
  Open Discussion