RHICfest

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

Science & User Support Center (SUSC) (BNL)

Stephen Peggs (BNL)

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

 

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RHICFest Agenda.pdf

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Thursday 9 July

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome - Abhay Deshpande

09:05 → 12:00 Unmatched beam flexibility & performance

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

09:05 The heavy ion story

Speaker: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

2026-07-09 RHICfest - heavy ion story.pptx

09:35 Optics flexibility and pre-history

Speaker: Steven Tepikian (BNL)

OpticsFlexabilityPrehistory.pdf

10:05 The polarization story

Speaker: Thomas Roser (BNL)

2026 07 09 The Polarization Story RHICfest.pdf

10:35 Coffee Break

11:00 Bunched beam stochastic cooling

Speaker: Michael Blaskiewicz (BNL)

blaskiewicz.pdf

11:30 RF-based electron cooling

Speaker: Alexei Fedotov (BNL)

Fedotov RHICfest 2026.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 No Host Lunch (Food truck will be available, pre-order form available at registration)

13:00 → 16:00 Commissioning: early experience

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

13:00 Satoshi to Mike: "You could use an honest job" (Remote)

Speaker: Michael Harrison (BNL)

13:15 Prolog: from ADD to RHIC (Remote)

Speaker: Jie Wei (MSU)

Wei_RHICfest2026.pptx

13:30 Building and commissioning RHIC

Speaker: Dejan Trbojevic (BNL)

DejanTrbojevic-Building&Commissioning.pptx

13:45 First orbit, first collisions

Speaker: Todd Satogata (JLAB)

2026-07-09-Satogata-RhicFest.pdf

2026-07-09-Satogata-RhicFest.pptx

14:00 Collisions, collimators & correctors

Speaker: Angelica Drees (BNL)

Drees_RHICfestCCC_v2.pptx

14:15 Coffee Break & Group Photograph

14:45 How to tame a snake

Speaker: Vadim Ptitsyn (BNL)

Ptitsyn_RHICfest.pptx

15:00 Polarimetry

Speaker: Haixin Huang (BNL)

polarimetry_HH.pdf

15:15 Decoupling, nonlinear correction and other strange activities

Speaker: Fulvia Pilat (ORNL)

PILAT_RHICfest.pptx

15:30 Early RHIC commissioning

Speaker: Mei Bai (SLAC)

Bai_RHIC_Early_Commissioning_RF_July_2006.pdf

Bai_RHIC_Early_Commissioning_RF_July_2006.pptx

15:45 Epilog: from RHIC to eRHIC

Speaker: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

peggs_epilog_260709.pdf

16:00 → 17:00 Open Discussion

18:00 → 21:00 No Host Dinner

Friday 10 July

09:00 → 12:00 Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 1

Convener: Wolfram Fischer (BNL)

09:00 Operational performance & reflections on recent developments

Speaker: Michiko Minty (BNL)

RHIC Celebration - final - Minty.pptx

09:40 Superconducting magnets

Speaker: Michael Anerella (bnl)

Amerella_RHICfest Superconducting Magnets Anerella 070726.pptx

10:10 Booster

Speaker: Kiel Hock (BNL)

RHICfest_Booster (2).pdf

10:40 Coffee break

11:00 AGS: From strong focusing to strong physics

Speaker: Vincent Schoefer (BNL)

Schoefer_AGS_RHICfest_2026 MinorCorrections.pptx

11:30 Mechanical Systems

Speaker: Joseph Tuozzolo (C-AD)

RHICfest PPT JT.pptx

12:00 → 13:00 No Host Lunch (pre-order form from cafeteria available at registration, for delivery to Bldg. 101)

13:00 → 16:15 Maturity: Technical Innovations & Advances 2

Convener: Stephen Peggs (BNL)

13:00 Power supplies

Speaker: George Ganetis (BNL)

Ganetis' RHIC Fest Presentation 6_30_2026.pdf

13:25 Ion Sources

Speaker: Deepak Raparia (BNL)

RHIC ION Sources.pptx

13:50 Radio Frequency

Speaker: Kevin Mernick (BNL)

RHICFest_RHIC_RF_Systems_Presentation.pptx

14:15 Beamline vacuum systems: history and innovations

Speaker: Dan Weiss (BNL)

RHIC Fest Vacuum.pptx

14:40 Coffee Break

15:00 Operations

Speaker: Gregory Marr (BNL)

operations final retreat.pptx

15:25 Cryogenics

Speaker: Roberto Than (BNL)

RHICFEST CRYOGENICS 7.10.2026.pptx

15:50 Controls

Speaker: Kevin Brown (C-AD)

RHIC-Controls-2000-2026.pptx

16:15 → 17:00 Open Discussion