Focusing crystal device for deflecting a divergent 50-GeV proton beam

At large accelerators, bent crystals are employed to deflect weakly divergent proton beams at the stages of extraction and collimation. We demonstrate that a divergent particle beam may be efficiently deflected using a crystal with a focusing edge. A proton beam with divergence near 1 mrad, which ex...

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Published inJETP letters Vol. 104; no. 1; pp. 12 - 14
Main Authors Afonin, A. G., Britvich, G. I., Bugorskii, A. P., Bulgakov, M. K., Durum, A. A., Kostin, M. Yu, Lutchev, A. V., Maisheev, V. A., Sandomirskii, Yu. E., Pitalev, V. I., Poluektov, I. V., Chesnokov, Yu. A., Chirkov, P. N., Yanovich, A. A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.07.2016
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Atomic
Biological and Medical Physics
Biophysics
Crystals
Fields
Molecular
Nuclei
Optical and Plasma Physics
Particle accelerators
Particle and Nuclear Physics
Particle beams
Particles
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Proton beams
Quantum Information Technology
Solid State Physics
Spintronics
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Summary:At large accelerators, bent crystals are employed to deflect weakly divergent proton beams at the stages of extraction and collimation. We demonstrate that a divergent particle beam may be efficiently deflected using a crystal with a focusing edge. A proton beam with divergence near 1 mrad, which exceeds the Lindhard angle by a factor of 30, has been experimentally deflected by 1.8 mrad with efficiency near 15%. The proposed focusing crystal may serve as an element of a novel optical system for secondary-particle beams in the TeV energy region.
ISSN:0021-3640
1090-6487
DOI:10.1134/S0021364016130051