Speaker
Gianluca Cavoto
(Università Roma La Sapienza)
Description
"A new generation of parasitic beam extraction of high energy particles from an
accelerator is proposed in CRYSBEAM. CRYSBEAM received an ERC Consolidator
Grant of the FP7-IDEAS European programme. Instead of massive magnetic kickers,
bent thin crystals trapping particles within the crystal lattice planes are used.
The first goal of the proposal is to demonstrate that bent crystals can be used to efficiently
extract beam halo from the SPS. After this, one should aim at proposing a scenario for halo
extraction in the LHC. Several TeV energy protons or ions should be deflected towards
a chosen target by the bent lattice planes only when the lattice planes are parallel to the
incoming particles direction. This type of beam manipulation could open new fields of investigation
of fundamental interactions between particles, and of coherent interactions between particles and matter.
An experiment in connection to Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays study is now also proposed
in the framework of CRYSBEAM."
