Abstract
Acceleration of polarized protons is one of the exciting features of the new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Measurements of beam polarization are required both for experiments and the accelerator tuning. Elastic scattering in the Coulomb nuclear interference (CNI) region of polarized proton beams on a carbon target demonstrates asymmetry which can be used to build a polarimeter. The methods proposed for a RHIC CNI polarimeter were tested with the AGS polarized beam in the E950 experiment. A 21.7 GeV/c polarized proton beam was scattered on an extremely thin carbon ribbon target located in the AGS ring. Two symmetrical arms consisting of silicon strip detectors (SSD) and a micro channel plate (MCP) were used to identify recoil carbon. Data obtained demonstrates a good identification of the reaction by the apparatus and a significant analyzing power. A RHIC polarimeter setup with 4 SSDs but without MCPs will be used to commission RHIC with polarized protons and for...
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