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Studies and application of bent crystals for beam steering at 70-GeV IHEP accelerator
This report overviews studies accomplished in the U70 proton synchrotron of
IHEP-Protvino during the recent two decades. Major attention is paid to a
routine application of bent crystals for beam extraction from the machine. It
has been confirmed experimentally that efficiency of beam extraction with a
crystal deflector of around 85% is well feasible for a proton beam with
intensity up to 1012 protons per cycle. Another trend is to use bent crystals
for halo collimation in a high energy collider. New promising options emerge
for, say, LHC and ILC based on the "volume reflection" effect, which has been
discovered recently in machine study runs at U70 of IHEP (50 GeV) and SPS of
CERN (400 GeV).Comment: 12 pages, 14 figure
Proton Extraction from IHEP Accelerator Using Bent Crystals
IHEP Protvino has pioneered the wide practical use of bent crystals as
optical elements in high-energy beams for beam extraction and deflection on
permanent basis since 1989. In the course of IHEP experiments, crystal
channeling has been developed into efficient instrument for particle steering
at accelerators, working in predictable, reliable manner with beams of very
high intensity over years. Crystal systems extract 70 GeV protons from IHEP
main ring with efficiency of 85% at intensity of 1.E12, basing on multi-pass
mechanism of channeling proposed theoretically and realised experimentally at
IHEP. Today, six locations on the IHEP 70-GeV main ring of the accelerator
facility are equipped by crystal extraction systems, serving mostly for routine
applications rather than for research and allowing a simultaneous run of
several particle physics experiments, thus significantly enriching the IHEP
physics program. The long successful history of large-scale crystal
exploitation at IHEP should help to incorporate channeling crystals into
accelerator systems worldwide in order to create unique systems for beam
delivery. We report recent results from the research and exploitation of
crystal extraction systems at IHEP.Comment: Invited talk at the International workshop "Relativistic Channeling
and Related Coherent Phenomena", Frascati (Rome) 23-26 March 200
Is the Luttinger liquid a new state of matter?
We are demonstrating that the Luttinger model with short range interaction
can be treated as a type of Fermi liquid. In line with the main dogma of
Landau's theory one can define a fermion excitation renormalized by interaction
and show that in terms of these fermions any excited state of the system is
described by free particles. The fermions are a mixture of renormalized right
and left electrons. The electric charge and chirality of the Landau
quasi-particle is discussed.Comment: paper 10 pages. This version of the paper will be published in
Foundations of Physic
Crystal collimation experiment on 70-GeV proton accelerator
The first proof-of-principle experiment on "crystal collimation" was performed with 70-GeV protons on IHEP accelerator. A bent crystal installed in the ring as a primary element upstream of a collimator has reduced the radiation levels downstream in the accelerator by a factor of two. The measurements agree with Monte Carlo predictions
Double volume reflection of a proton beam by a sequence of two bent crystals
The doubling of the angle of beam deflection due to volume reflection of protons by a sequence of two bent silicon crystals was experimentally observed at the 400 GeV proton beam of the CERN SPS. A similar sequence of short bent crystals can be used as an efficient primary collimator for the Large Hadron Collider
Observation of focusing of 400 GeV/c proton beam with the help of bent crystals
The results of observation and studies of focusing of 400 GeV/ c proton beam with the help of bent single crystals are presented. Two silicon crystals have been used in the measurements. The focal length of the first and second crystals is found to be 1.48 m and 0.68 m, respectively. The mean square size of the horizontal profile in the focus was 3.1 and 4.3 times as small as at the exit of the crystals
Extraction of the carbon ion beam from the U-70 accelerator into beamline 4a using a bent single crystal
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