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Title	Setup and Performance of the RHIC Injector Accelerators for the 2005 Run with Copper Ions
Author(s)	Gardner, Chris J ; Ahrens, Leif ; Alessi, James ; Benjamin, John ; Blaskiewicz, Michael ; Brennan, Joseph M ; Brown, Kevin A ; Carlson, Charles ; De Long, Joseph ; Glenn, Joseph ; Hayes, Thomas ; MacKay, William W ; Marr, Gregory J ; Morris, John ; Roser, Thomas ; Severino, Freddy ; Smith, Kevin T ; Steski, Dannie ; Tsoupas, Nicholaos ; Zaltsman, Alex ; Zeno, Keith
Affiliation	(BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York)
Publication	2005
In:	21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.2068
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	Copper ions for the 2005 run of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory are accelerated in the Tandem, Booster and AGS prior to injection into RHIC. The setup and performance of this chain of accelerators will be reviewed.