Loss maps of RHIC

State-of-the-art tracking tools were recently developed at CERN to study the cleaning efficiency of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collimation system . These tools are fully transportable, meaning that any accelerator lattice that includes a collimation systemcan be simulated. Each of the two Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) beam lines features a multi-stage collimation system, therefore dedicated datasets from RHIC operations with proton beams can be used to benchmark the tracking codes and assess the accuracy of the predicted hot spots along the LHC.