Crystal channeling
work was started at
Fermilab in 1976 by Dick Carrigan. Originally the hope was that the
Angstrom feature
size could
be used to measure very short-lived particle lifetimes. This was soon
abandoned
and the work shifted to exploring the practical problems with
channeling at
multi-hundred GeV. In the process, our collaborator, Edic Tsyganov then
of
Dubna, came up with the idea of bent crystal channeling. That led to
a low energy demonstration at Dubna, use for extraction at Dubna and
Serpukhov,
development of a theory of bent crystal channeling by our collaborator,
Jim
Ellison of the University of New Mexico, and extensive exploration of
that theory at Fermilab. Channeling
at Fermilab summarizes the work in five major areas.
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Other
channeling sites
Serpukhov site - IHEP
(Russia)
This contains a good list of many channeling
pages at web links
CARE
channeling collimation at CERN
(See general CARE site
for more
information on CARE program.)
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Special channeling topics
Crystal collimation
This topic is now extremely interesting because of LHC requirements as
well as fundamentals of channeling.
Negative bending?
Volume reflection and capture
Relates to effect observed at RHIC and Fermilab that may have
significant impact on channeling collimation.
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Recent and future channeling meetings
Relativistic
Channeling and related coherent phenomena Frascati, Mar. 23-26, 2004
Crystal
collimation in hadron storage rings CERN, March 7-8,
2005
Relativistic
channeling 05 Frascati, Jul. 25 - Jul. 28, 2005
CARE
crystal channeling workshop CERN, March 9 - 10, 2006
Channeling
2006
Frascati, July 3 - July 7, 2006 contact dabagov@lnf.infn.it |