Abstract
The phenomenon of deflection of a charged particle beam due to channeling in a bent crystal has been well investigated and successfully applied for beam extraction at high-energy accelerators, for energies about 10 GeV and higher. However, it is of a big practical interest to consider the task of bending and extracting charged particles with energies below 1 GeV, for example, for production of ultrastable beams of low emittance for medical and biological applications. However, for low energy, i.e. below 1 GeV, the bent crystal channeling is not efficient. That motivates us to consider in this article an other crystal technique, based on thin straight crystal targets, as elements for the extraction and collimation of the circulating beam in an accelerator ring. The main advantages of reflection in straight crystals, in comparison with bent crystal channeling, consist in the small length of straight crystals along the beam, that reduces the amount of nuclear interactions and improves the background.
Highlights
This means that, e.g., the optimum crystal length must be about 1 μm for 500 MeV particles
Up to 80% was achieved, but deflection angle was limited because of non-optimal construction of first crystal device
For optimization of crystal targets we propose a research about the deflection of particles in the Beam Test Facility of the LNF INFN, where a particle beam with energies of 50–700 MeV is readily available [5]
Summary
This means that, e.g., the optimum crystal length must be about 1 μm for 500 MeV particles. Several oriented crystal plates unfolded like a fan [10]) can be used to increase the deflection angle (figure 2). The total deflection angle may be as large as θ c × N, where N is the number of crystal plates.
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