Crystal collimation as an option for the LHC

Walter Scandale

doi:10.1117/12.741849

2 May 2007 Crystal collimation as an option for the LHC

Walter Scandale

Proceedings Volume 6634, International Conference on Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena II; 66340F (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741849
Event: International Conference on Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena II, 2006, Rome, Italy

Abstract

We demonstrate that channeling in a crystal can serve as a primary scraper for the collimation system of the Large Hadron Collider. It has been proven both experimentally and in Monte Carlo simulations that crystal as a scraper meets all technical requirements imposed on the LHC collimation system. Crystal scraper works in efficient, predictable, reliable manner with beams of very high intensity over years. If used as a primary element in the LHC collimation system, crystal makes the machine cleaner by a factor of 10 due to channeling with efficiency of about 90% - the figure already demonstrated experimentally at 70 GeV and in simulations for the LHC and Tevatron.

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Walter Scandale "Crystal collimation as an option for the LHC", Proc. SPIE 6634, International Conference on Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena II, 66340F (2 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.741849

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