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

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.

 

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Thursday 9 July

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

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