WAO'98 Poster Abstract

 How We Do Business at the AGS

 Peter F. Ingrassia
 Alternating Gradient Synchrotron Department
 Building 911A
 P.O. Box 5000
 Upton, NY 11973-5000

   During the last 38 years the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron has
   evolved from a High Energy Physics facility consisting of a 50 MeV
   Linac and 33 GeV proton synchrotron that utilized internal
   targeting, to a complex of accelerators that include a pair of
   15MV Tandem Van DeGraff electrostatic accelerators, a 200 MeV
   drift tube Linac, a 2 GeV rapid cycling Booster Synchrotron, and
   the AGS which itself serves seven fixed external production target
   stations.  As many as six target stations are used during slow
   extraction and one is used during fast extraction.  The AGS is
   expected to continue its role as a Kaon factory until FY`00 when
   the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) begins servicing the
   Heavy Ion Physics community.  The AGS has served the Heavy Ion
   Physics community for the past ten years for fixed target research
   and has helped pioneer physics with Polarized Protons at high
   energies.  Since 1960, the intensity of the AGS extracted beam has
   increased 3 orders of magnitude to a record 63 tera protons per
   cycle.  When it is not providing protons for the AGS Booster, the
   Linac services the Brookhaven Linac Isotope Production (BLIP)
   facility which produces radio-nuclides for nuclear medicine.  The
   future holds the possibility of a Booster Applications Facility to
   serve the radio-biology community and, of course, RHIC.  How we put 
   these pieces together is the subject of the poster "How We Do
   Business at the AGS"