New Method for the Generation of Secondary Particle Beams at Accelerators

Abstract

The generation of beams of secondary particles (π and K mesons) at proton accelerators is a difficult scientific and engineering problem. To obtain narrow directional particle beams for experiments, intense extracted proton beams are used, secondary particles (π and K mesons) are generated at an external target, and they are focused and transferred through long magneto-optical channels. In this work, a surprisingly simple method based on a crystal focusing device has been proposed to obtain secondary beams. An experiment on the production of a secondary beam using a crystal has been performed at the U-70 accelerator. Schemes for the formation of beams with energies E ~ 1 TeV have been proposed for large colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider.