A study of collimation and extraction of the U-70 accelerator beam using an axially oriented crystal

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Abstract

Extraction and collimation of the 50-GeV proton beam with a bent silicon crystal at the U-70 accelerator of the Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino, Russia) was investigated. Until recently, proton beam extraction (and collimation) from accelerators has been effected using crystals with the (111) or (110) plane orientation, when the beam propagates far from the crystal axes. In the described experiment, the silicon crystal was oriented so that the proton beam was incident on it near the 〈110〉 axis. Under these conditions, a part of the beam was deflected by the crystal owing to the dynamic chaos phenomenon. The maximum beam extraction efficiency was as high as ~80%.

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A. G. Afonin

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

V. T. Baranov

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

M. K. Bulgakov

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

I. S. Voinov

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

V. B. Ganenko

Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Ukraine, ul. Akademicheskaya 1, Kharkiv, 61108

V. N. Gorlov

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

I. V. Ivanova

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

I. V. Kirillin

Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Ukraine, ul. Akademicheskaya 1, Kharkiv, 61108

V. A. Maisheev

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

S. F. Reshetnikov

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

D. A. Savin

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

E. A. Syshchikov

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

V. I. Terekhov

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

V. I. Truten’

Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Ukraine, ul. Akademicheskaya 1, Kharkiv, 61108

Yu. A. Chesnokov

Institute for High Energy Physics

Author for correspondence.
Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

P. N. Chirkov

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

N. F. Shul’ga

Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Ukraine, ul. Akademicheskaya 1, Kharkiv, 61108

I. A. Yazynin

Institute for High Energy Physics

Email: chesnokov@ihep.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Nauki 1, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281

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