Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams (Aug 2012)

Observation and comparative analysis of proton beam extraction or collimation by different planar channels of a bent crystal

  • A. G. Afonin,
  • V. T. Baranov,
  • M. K. Bulgakov,
  • Yu. A. Chesnokov,
  • P. N. Chirkov,
  • V. N. Gorlov,
  • I. V. Ivanova,
  • D. M. Krylov,
  • A. N. Lun’kov,
  • V. A. Maisheev,
  • S. F. Reshetnikov,
  • D. A. Savin,
  • E. A. Syshchikov,
  • V. I. Terekhov,
  • I. S. Voinov,
  • I. A. Yazynin,
  • V. B. Ganenko,
  • I. V. Kirillin,
  • N. F. Shul’ga,
  • V. I. Truten’

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.15.081001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 8
p. 081001

Abstract

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In the experiment the efficiency of the 50 GeV proton beam extraction from accelerator by means of a bent crystal as a function of crystal orientation was measured. This allowed one to make a comparative analysis of efficiencies of high-energy protons deflection by different crystal atomic planes with different values of the electrostatic field. The results of simulation of high-energy protons deflection by means of crystal atomic planes and crystal atomic strings are also presented in the article. In the case of planar channeling the simulation shows a good agreement with experimental data. In the case of proton motion in the regime of stochastic scattering by bent atomic strings the simulation shows that angles of particle deflection are much greater than the critical channeling angle.