Relaxation of axially confined 400 GeV/c protons to planar channeling in a bent crystal

Abstract

An investigation on the mechanism of Relaxation of axially confined 400 GeV/c protons to planar channeling in a bent crystal was carried out at the extracted line H8 from CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The experimental results were critically compared to computer simulations, showing a good agreement. We identified a necessary condition for the exploitation of axial confinement or its relaxation for particle beam manipulation in high-energy accelerators. We introduce the idea of using a short bent crystal, aligned with one of its main axis to the beam direction, as a beam steerer or a beam splitter with adjustable intensity in the field of particle accelerators. In particular, in the latter case, a complete relaxation from axial confinement to planar channeling takes place, resulting in beam splitting into the two strongest skew planar channels.

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L. Bandiera1, A. Mazzolari1,a, E. Bagli1, G. Germogli1, V. Guidi1, A. Sytov1,9, I. V. Kirillin2, N. F. Shulga2,3,A. Berra4,5, D. Lietti4,5, M. Prest4,5, D. De Salvador6,7, E. Vallazza8

1 Dipartimento di Fisica, INFN Sezione di Ferrara, Universit di Ferrara, Via Saragat 1, 44122 Ferrara, Italy

2 Akhiezer Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Science Center Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, Akademicheskaya Str., 1, Kharkov 61108, Ukraine

3 V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University, Svobody Sq. 4, Kharkov 61022, Ukraine

4 Universit dellInsubria, via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy

5 INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milan, Italy

6 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Viale dellUniversit 2, 35020 Legnaro, Italy

7 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padua, Italy

8 INFN Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy

9 Research Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarusian State University, Bobruiskaya street, 11, 220030 Minsk, Belarus Received: 11 November 2015 / Accepted: 14 January 2016 The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com

Abstract An investigation on the mechanism of relaxation of axially conned 400 GeV/c protons to planar channeling in a bent crystal was carried out at the extracted line H8 from CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. The experimental results were critically compared to computer simulations, showing a good agreement. We identied a necessary condition for the exploitation of axial connement or its relaxation for particle beam manipulation in high-energy accelerators. We introduce the idea of using a short bent crystal, aligned with one of its main axis to the beam direction, as a beam steerer or a beam splitter with adjustable intensity in the eld of particle accelerators. In particular, in the latter case, a complete relaxation from axial connement to planar channeling takes place, resulting in beam splitting into the two strongest skew planar channels.

1 Introduction

A charged particle moving inside a crystal nearly aligned with crystallographic directions or planes may suffer correlated collisions with neighboring lattice atoms. As a result, its dynamics can be described by the continuous potential of atomic strings/planes within which a charged particle trajec-

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tory may be trapped, leading to the process of channeling. Channeling may occur as the particle incidence angle with the crystal axes (planes) is lower than the critical angle introduced by Lindhard, c = [radicalbig]2U0,ax /pv (c = [radicalbig]2U0,pl /pv),

U0 being the continuous potential well depth, p and v the particle momentum and velocity, respectively [1]. Since the axial potential well U0,ax is deeper than the planar U0,pl, c is larger than c.

After the pioneering work of Tsyganov in 1976 [2,3], the usage of bent crystals has been deeply investigated for manipulation of the trajectories of charged beams in high-energy particle accelerators. Indeed, it is possible to effectively deect the particle beam direction by a small-sized bent crystal in place of commonly used magnets [46].

Various mechanisms of deection of charged particles by a bent crystal have been investigated over the years. These mechanisms involve either bound and unbound particle states in both the axial and planar potential wells. The deection mechanisms involving bound states are axial (AC) and planar (PC) channeling, while over-barrier particles may be deected by the stochastic mechanism of deection (SD) [7] caused by multiple scattering with atomic strings (the so-called doughnut scattering) and by volume reection (VR) from bent crystal planes [8]. In view of applications to beam steering, most of the studies have been focused on the planar cases due to the easier experimental requirements for their implementation [9]. Nevertheless, the exploitation of the axial mechanism of deection may bring several advantages. Indeed, the stronger potential of the axes leads to a

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larger angular acceptance and a higher deection efciency than for PC. In particular, in case of axial alignment, most of the particles are deected through SD rather than by AC. Since SD consists of the deection of unbound particles, the mechanism of dechanneling, i.e., the kick out of channeled (bound) particles from the potential well, does not appreciably affect the process of particles steering as it does for PC. Furthermore, if one compares SD with VR, it can be noticed that even if the latter has a larger acceptance, the achievable deection angle under stochastic regime can be far larger than for VR, for which is of the order of c.

SD was predicted in [10] and allows deecting the whole beam if the crystal is bent with an angle , which obeys the following inequality [11]

< st =

2R2cl0 , (1)

where st is the maximum angle achievable through SD, R is the radius of crystal curvature, l0 = 4/(2nd Rac), n

being the concentration of atoms in the crystal, d the distance between neighboring atoms in the atomic string and Ra the atomic screening radius. Condition (1) was found without taking into account incoherent scattering, i.e., st is a function of particle energy and R and not of the crystal length.

Pioneering experiments on axial channeling [12,13] failed to observe an efcient beam deection at the nominal bending angle because Eq. (1) was not fullled, i.e., st.

Indeed, experiments involving positive particles highlighted strong feed-in of particles into the channels of skew planes (e.g., see Fig. 10 in Ref. [13]). In order to visualize the effect of skew planes, Fig. 1 represents the strongest (110) and (211) planes intercepting the 111 axis (the same used in the

experiments described below in the text). Particles deection occurs along the at horizontal (11

2) plane. All other planes result to be bent with a curvature radius R/| sin(pl)|, pl

being the inclination angle of the plane with respect to the horizontal one. The vertical plane (1

10) is bent with radius R as well as the 111 axis.

Only recently, SD was experimentally observed for either positively [14] or negatively [15] charged particles, owing to the advent of a new generation of bent crystals [16,17], short enough to efciently deect high-energy particles up to the nominal bending angle of the crystal.

In particular, in Ref. [14] the potential of axial connement for steering of positive beams was highlighted, despite that a strong feed in of particles into skew planar channels was recorded. Indeed, a total 90 % of deection efciency was reached due to SD accompanied by relaxation into skew planes. Such a high value has never been achieved in the case of PC. Therefore, SD accompanied by the relaxation to skew planes can be a valuable alternative for beam steering in accelerators.

Fig. 1 Angular region around 111 axis, where the strongest (110)

and (211) planes are underlined. R is the radius of curvature of both the

111 axis and the (110) vertical plane, while R/| sin(pl)| represents

the bending radius of each skew plane, pl being the angle between the skew plane and the (11

2) horizontal plane

Apart from the result presented in Refs. [14,15], no other data collected with short crystals suitable for applications are available in the literature. As pointed out in [18], there is a need for deeper understanding about axial channeling for its exploitation in beam manipulation.

In this paper we present an investigation through experiments and simulations on the axial-to-planar channeling relaxation of high-energy positive particles in bent crystals and its dependence on crystal curvature. With this, we also addressed possible schemes for manipulation of particle beams, such as steering or splitting.

2 Experiment with 400 GeV/c protons

An experiment was carried out at the external beamline H8 of CERN-Super Proton Synchrotron, where a primary beam of 400 GeV/c protons is available. Two 1552 mm3 strip-like

Si crystals (L = 2 mm thick along the beam direction) with

the largest faces oriented parallel to the (1

10) planes were used. The crystals were fabricated according to the procedure described in Refs. [19,20] and bent through anticlastic deformation [17] to curvature radii R1 = (30.30 0.05) m

and R2 = (6.90 0.05) m. Given c 21 rad for the 111 axes, from condition (1) it comes out that st,1 604

rad and st,2 58 rad for the two crystals, respectively.

Since the bending angles are equal to 1 = L/R1 = 66 rad

and 2 = 290 rad, it follows that the rst crystal fullls

condition (1) for SD, while the second does not.

The two crystals were mounted on a high-precision goniometer with the possibility to be aligned in either hor-

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Fig. 2 a, b Experimental angular distribution of400 GeV/c protons after interaction with the 2 mm long Si crystals, aligned with the

111 axis, bent with curvature

radii equal to R1 = 30.3 m (a)

and R2 = 6.9 m (b),

respectively. c, d Simulated angular distribution for the a and b cases. The dotted arrows in a and b highlight the directions of deection for the (01

1) and the (10

1) skew planes (colors online show the intensity of the deected beam in logarithmic scale)

izontal or vertical direction, with the accuracy of 1 rad in both directions. Deection was measured by a telescope system based on Si double-sided microstrip detectors [21] with an angular resolution of 4 rad and 4.7 rad in the horizontal and vertical deection angle, respectively (the incoming angle resolution was 2.5 rad in the horizontal and 2.8 in the vertical angles). The experimental setup was based on the part A of the setup in [22]. By exploiting the horizontal rotational movement of the goniometer, we rst attained PC in the (1

10) planes, then by scanning the vertical rotational movement, the crystals were aligned with the 111

axis. With the aim of selecting only the particles that crossed the crystals, a geometrical cut as wide as 0.8 2 mm2 was

set during off-line analysis. At the same time, strip torsion induced by holder mechanical imperfections [23] was evaluated and taken into account to determine the right value of incidence angles with crystal axis in both directions. After that, an angular cut satisfying the condition [radicalBig]2X,in + 2Y,in

5 rad, X,in and Y,in being the horizontal and vertical incidence angles respectively, was set in order to select only the particles aligned with the 111 crystal axes.

Figure 2a and b show the experimental angular distributions of 400 GeV/c protons after interaction with the crystals bent to R1 (a) and R2 (b), respectively. The x-axis lies in the (11

2) plane, while the y-axis in the (1

10) plane. In Fig. 2a, a large part of the protons traversed the crystal under SD regime (about 30 %) and were deected to the nominal bend-

ing angle 1, while other protons relaxed to PC during their motion through the crystal. On the contrary, Fig. 2b highlights that the overwhelming majority of the protons relaxed to planar channels (01

1) and (10

1). The difference between the distributions in plots (a) and (b) owes to the fulllment (for R1) or not-fulllment (for R2) of condition (1). In both cases, almost no particle remains with the direction of the incoming beam and about a fraction of 98 % of the beam is deected with an horizontal angle >0, i.e., a total steering of the beam was accomplished. In case (b), most of the particles (80 %) were captured by the two strongest (110) skew planes and thus well separated at the crystal exit by an angle equal to 250 rad, resulting in efcient beam splitting other than steering.

An intriguing feature one can observe in Fig. 2a and b is the lack of dechanneling from skew planes. Indeed, during the relaxation process, protons are captured in a skew planar channel without approaching close to atomic strings, thereby entering close to the minimum of the planar potential well. In other words, the lack of dechanneling, which is a feature of SD, is preserved even when the particles relax to skew planes. Such particles may be dechanneled later from skew planes due to scattering with valence electrons. The usage of a crystal much shorter (2 mm) than the electronic dechanneling length (lD 220 mm for 400 GeV/c protons in the eld of

(110) planes [4]) prevented the loss of particles from skew planes.

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Fig. 3 Experimental and simulated angular distributions of particles in the skew planar channels (10

1), respectively. Left Y-scale squares and down-triangles are for experimental and simulated distribution for R1 = 30.3 m. Right Y-scale circles and up-triangles are the same for

R2 = 6.9 m3 Theoretical investigation and discussion

In order to investigate more deeply the features underlined in the above section, a Monte Carlo simulation has been worked out, by using the same code as in Ref. [24]. The code solves the equation of motion in the eld of continuum potential through numerical integration and also takes into account the contribution of incoherent scattering with atomic nuclei and electrons. Figure 2c and d display the simulated deection distributions for both crystals, taking into account the experimental resolution. The comparison between experimental and simulated results in Fig. 2 exhibits a very good agreement. The largest statistics achieved through simulations also highlights the escape of protons toward a wealth of minor skew planes other than the (110)s, especially for the case of the most bent crystal (see Fig. 2d).

For a lively view of the dynamics of the particles in the eld of bent atomic strings we prepared two animations: Animation1.mpg and Animation2.mpg, for crystals bent at radii R1 and R2 respectively. A description of the two animations is available as Supplementary Material (see the pdf le Suppl-Mat.pdf).

A deeper insight into the mechanism of axial-to-planar relaxation has been carried out by analyzing the particle distributions in Fig. 2 along one of the strongest skew plane, i.e., the (10

1) plane. The results are displayed in Fig. 3 for both experiments and simulations. The origin of the coordinates corresponds to the direction of 111 axes at the end of the

crystal, i.e., the origin of the two dashed arrows in Fig. 2a and b. In both cases in Fig. 3, the regions between the nal axis positions (zero) and the farthest points from the axes along the (10

1) planes are populated by the particles that have undergone relaxation from SD to PC in their motion through the crystal. It is clear that the escape velocity from SD to skew planes increases while R decreases. By assuming that the rate of particle escaping from stochastic deection is proportional by a factor C to the number of particles that

are in this regime, N, one can write the following equation

d Ndl = C N, (2)

where l is the length of the particle path inside the crystal. By solving Eq. (2) one obtains:

N(l) = N0eCl = N0el/lR, (3)

where lR is the length within which the number of particles in SD regime e-folds, i.e., the relaxation length, and N0 the total number of particles captured into the SD regime at the crystal entrance (all the particles in the cases under consideration here). The number of particles captured under channeling regime in all the skew planes, Npl , vs. l is derived from Eq.

(3) as follows:

Npl (l) = N0(1 el/lR). (4)

This relationship determines the exponential form between the two peaks in the distributions of Fig. 3.

For a crystal bent to a curvature radius R, the relaxation length lR determines the maximum crystal length for efcient steering of particles at the full bending angle = L/R. lR is

a more direct physical quantity than st to design an optimal crystal for beam manipulation under SD. Moreover, differently from st, this quantity accounts for the contribution of incoherent scattering with atomic nuclei and electrons. One can replace the ideal condition (1) for SD with the more useful relation L < lR.

An estimate for lR can be extrapolated through an exponential t of the region between the two peaks in the distributions of Fig. 3, by converting the angular scale into a crystal-depth scale. As an example, for the case of R2, the outcomes of the ts gave lR2,exp = (0.19 0.05) mm in agreement

with the simulated value lR2,sim = (0.20 0.03) mm.

We carried out a series of simulations to study the dependence of lR on the bending radius. Figure 4 displays the results of the simulations for three different initial beam divergences. The horizontal dot-line highlights the crystal length, while the two dot-dashed vertical lines the radii of curvature used in the experiment. One can notice that as R = R1,

lR slightly exceeded L, while at R = R2 the opposite condi

tion, L lR, holds. Therefore, lR can be used to establish

the condition for efcient steering or splitting of positively charged particles as follows:

Condition A If L lR, the crystal behaves as a total beam

steerer via Stochastic Deection;

Condition B If L lR and L lD, the crystal behaves

as a beam splitter.

One can experimentally exploit the two deection regimes dened by conditions AB to effectively accomplish operations that are typical of the accelerator physics. In particular,

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Fig. 4 Dependence of the relaxation length, lR, to the curvature radius for three different initial beam divergences; zero (solid line), 5 rad (dashed-dotted line) and 10 rad (dashed line). The two vertical lines corresponds to the experimental values R1 = 30.3 m and R2 = 6.9 m.

The horizontal line represents the experimental crystal length L =

2 mm. The simulations do not take into account the experimental resolution. In the Monte Carlo a particle is considered as escaped from SD if the angle between its momentum and the atomic string exceeds the critical angle for axial channeling

the usage of a bent crystal respecting condition A as a passive element in a crystal-based collimation scheme offers not only the advantage of reducing the amount of material of the primary collimator, as already been demonstrated for planar channeling at SPS [25] and, very recently, at LHC [26], but also accomplishes deection of the whole beam to the same direction through a single pass, an operation which cannot be done via currently used scheme exploiting PC, where multiturn interaction is mandatory. A further advantage of SD, is the reduction of interactions of protons with the nuclei of the crystals as compared to planar case [27], thus reducing the amount of particles in the secondary halo. Both these features, together with the increase of angular acceptance in axial mode can be exploited in a crystal-based collimation for SPS or LHC with higher efciency and stronger reduction of unwanted secondary particles than for planar mode.

On the other hand, a crystal that meets the condition B can effectively be used for beam splitting. In such a case,

a crystal-based extraction can be exploited to set up an extracted beam layout on two experimental channels in just one extraction point from a high-energy hadron accelerator as LHC or FCC. Moreover, this scheme offers the advantage to decrease the radiation damage of the absorbers used for beam collimation (by increasing the number of absorption points and thereby the absorption area). The possibility to realize extracted multi-TeV-energy beamlines in the LHC (or in the Future Circular Collider) is gaining interest in the community of High Energy Physics [28]. Similarly to what is already performed at the SPS in the hundredsGeV energy range, xed target experiments could be set up at the LHC energies, leading to development of innovative research elds [29]. Finally, the axial-to-planar relaxation process offers the possibility to adjust the intensity on the two beams by properly tuning the beam direction with respect to the crystal axis. Indeed, if the incidence angle of the beam with respect to the crystal axis is different from zero and closer to one of the two skew planes, most of the particles preferentially relax only on that plane, as demonstrated by simulation shown in Fig. 5a. Here, most of the particles are captured by the (01

1)

skew plane, as highlighted in Fig. 5b, which compares the beam intensity of the two (110) skew planes.

4 Conclusions

In summary, an investigation on the mechanism of relaxation of axially conned 400 GeV/c protons to planar channeling in two 2-mm long bent Si crystals was carried out at the H8 extracted beamline of CERNSPS. The study of relaxation allowed one to individuate useful conditions (A and B) to exploit a short passive bent crystal oriented with its main axis to the beam as a tool in particle accelerator. In the rst mode (A), total relaxation is prevented and the crystal may be used as an efcient deector for the whole beam. This rst mode can be exploited to improve the beam collimation in the LHC, through an efcient deection of the beam halo. In the second regime (B), relaxation is favored and a short Si

Fig. 5 a Simulated angular distribution of 400 GeV/c protons after interaction with the 2 mm long Si crystal bent with curvature radii equal toR2 = 6.9 m, with an incidence

angle X,in = 15 rad,

Y,in = 8.66 rad with respect

to the 111 axes. b Vertical

deected prole in the two (110) skew planes, obtained via projection of the 2D-distribution of Fig. 5a enclosed between the two vertical dashed-lines

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crystal can be exploited to efciently split the beam into two separated beams with adjustable intensity. This regime can be used in hadron accelerators for realization of both beam extraction and layout of the extracted beam to several beam lines by means of one passive and space-saving device.

Acknowledgments We recognized partial support of the INFNCHANEL experiment, of the IUSS-Grant by University of Ferrara, of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Project No. CO-7-1), of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Project No. 0115U000473), of the State Fund for Fundamental Research (Project No. F64/39-2015). Authors acknowledge the help and support of SPS coordinator and staff. We also thank G. Frequest of Fogale Nanotech (Nimes, France) for his support in measuring the crystal thickness andA. Persiani and C. Manfredi of Perman (Loiano, Italy) for their support with crystal holder manufacturing.

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