Simulation of beam steering phenomena in bent crystals

Abstract

The simulation methods for the channeling phenomena in GeV/TeV energy range in ideal or distorted crystal lattices are discussed. Monte Carlo predictions for feed-out and feed-in rates, dislocation dechanneling, and deflection efficiencies of bent crystals are compared to the experimental data. The role of multiple interactions with crystal in circular accelerators ("multipass channeling") for the efficiency boost in the crystal-aided extraction experiments is analysed. Possible future applications of the crystal channeling technique are considered.Comment: 10pp. Presented at COSIRES 1998 (Okayama