Probing a cooled beam of decelerated highly-charged heavy ions extracted out of the ESR by a channeling experiment

A cooled beam of decelerated highly-charged heavy ions is slowly extracted out of the cooler and storage ring ESR, by combining the deceleration technique and the charge exchange extraction mode. The quality of the external ion beam is tested by a channeling experiment. Bare Au⁷⁹⁺ ions are injected into the ESR at an energy of 360 MeV/u, decelerated to 53 MeV/u, and finally cooled strongly in the electron cooler. By breeding of neighboring charge state ions via radiative recombination in the electron cooler H-like ions are produced. The H-like ion fraction is extracted out of the storage ring. This extracted Au⁷⁸⁺ ion beam is probed by a channeling experiment measuring the extinction rate of the projectile Kα X-ray yield around the [110] axis of a thin silicon crystal. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Energy losses of electrons in oriented crystals

Abstract

Within the framework of the multistring model of axial channeling of electrons the method for calculating the losses to radiation in channeling is proposed. The physical model includes the multiple scattering, the beam and target characteristics. The simulated results are compared with the experimental data.     

Systematic Approach to the Analysis of Perturbed Spectra. Part II: Solvina the Problem—A Case Study

Abstract

Part I of this review [1] presented an overview of the study of perturbed spectra, the formal structure of vibration-rotation energy states, the systematic determination of symmetry allowed interactions, the representation and calculation of perturbed energies, and the inverse eigenvalue problem. In this concluding part we first consider perturbation effects on transition frequency and intensity in light of the formalism of Part I. Following this we develop a formalism for fitting perturbed spectra and carry out several example cases. Following these examples, we present a real case study of a perturbed system of vibration-rotation bands that illustrates a series of nearly insuperable problems in analysis. In the process of describing the approach to analysis, much of what was presented in Part I will be made concrete. In addition, the case study should give light to a number of areas only mentioned in passing in Part I.     

Modification of the theory of diffracted channeling radiation for axial electron and positron channeling

A new type of combinational channeling radiation induced by subbarrier (interband) transitions for the transverse motion of relativistic electrons (positrons) is studied. It is known as diffracted channeling radiation (DCR). The formula describing the DCR angular distribution in the case of axial channeling is obtained by taking into account the band structure of energy levels for the transverse motion of electrons (positrons). It is shown that, in the two-wave approximation of the wave function A(r) of virtual photons, the DCR matrix elements in the dipole approximation for axial and plane channeling coincide formally (with the dimension of the problem taken into account). However, the formulas for DCR angular distributions in the cases of axial and plane channeling differ considerably.     

ABNORMAL ENERGY DEPENDENCE OF AXIAL MINIMUM CHANNELING YIELDS IN GexSi1-x/Si(100) STRAINED

An energy dependence of the axial minimum channeling yield in Ge_xSi_1-x/Si(100) Strained-layer superlattice is observed in the energy range of impinging He⁺ ione from 1.2 to 3.0 MeV. For [100] axial channeling, the measurements ere in agreement with what have been known in a single crystal. However, for [110] axial channeling, it is found that the minimum channeling yields increase markedly with the increase of He⁺ ion energy, which is contrary to the general channeling behaviors in a single crystal. A tentative model is suggested to explain this aberrance.     

正电子面沟道辐射的非线性特征

经典物理学指出,在电磁场中作加速运动的带电粒子将不断向外辐射能量.在晶体沟道中运动的带电粒子也不例外,晶格场可以使带电粒子的辐射能量达到很高.对于10MeV的正电子,辐射能量可达keV量级.粒子在沟道中的运动行为决定于粒子晶体的相互作用势,常用的相互作用势有Lindhard势、Moliere势和正弦平方势.由于粒子在沟道中的运动行为十分类似于震荡器中运动的自由电子,可望把沟道辐射改造为Χ射线激光或γ射线激光.从Lindhard势出发,将其展开到四次项,在经典力学框架内,粒子的运动方程可以化为含立方项的二阶非线性微分方程,并利用Jacobian椭圆函数和第一类全椭圆积分解析地表示了系统的解和粒子运动周期,导出了正电子面沟道辐射的瞬时辐射强度、平均辐射强度和最大辐射频率,指出了利用沟道辐射作为γ激光的可能性.     

Channeling radiation: Theory,semi-classical simulations

Abstract

An introduction to channeling and channeling (Kumakhov) radiation is given. Relativistic and quantum-mechanical effects are discussed in function of the electron or positron energy. Phenomena of Quantum Electrodynamics in strong macroscopic field, which can be tested in channeling conditions, are described. Recipees for semi-classical Monte-Carlo simulations are presented and one of them compared with experiments at 10 and 150 GeV.     

Resonant influence of hypersound on the radiation of an axially channeled electron

Abstract

The spectral intensity of the radiation emitted by an axially channeled electron in a single crystal excited by a longitudinal hypersonic wave propagating along the channeling direction has been calculated for the energy range 10MeV ≤ E ≤ 100 MeV. It has been shown that under the influence of acoustic vibrations excited in the single crystal a resonant intensification of the electron channeling radiation, a variation of its spectral distribution as well as inverse radiative transitions are possible.     

Channeling radiation: Past achievements and future prospects

Abstract

When a relativistic charged particle passes through a single crystal very nearly along a major crystalline plane or axis so that it is channeled in that direction, it undergoes periodic motion in the plane transverse to this direction and hence it can radiate. Quantum mechanically, this channeling radiation corresponds to a radiative transition between two eigenstates of the transverse crystalline potential; when the transition occurs between two bound states, a sharp spectral line is emitted. When there are only two bound states (for incident electrons), or when the interplaner potential is nearly harmonic (as for incident positrons), the emitted radiation is nearly monochromatic. Since the discovery of channeling radiation at the LLNL Electron-Positron Linear Accelerator, many of its properties have been delineated, both there and elsewhere. For example, channeling radiation is very intense, forward-directed, easily tunable, and for the planar case, linearly polarized. Channeling radiation has been used as a probe both of the interplanar potentials and other properties of perfect crystals and of the effects of impurities and defects in imperfect crystals. Finally, channeling radiation has great potential use as a photon source for numerous other applications in several fields of science and technology.

This paper is intended to keynote the first International Conference on Coherent Radiation Processes in Strong Fields by recalling some history of the discovery and exploitation to date of channeling radiation. Studies of channeling radiation, in addition to elucidating the physics of the process itself, its application to the determination of properties of perfect and imperfect crystals, and its potential application to a large variety of fields by its use as an intense, monochromatic, forward-directed, tunable, and polarized photon source, have spawned an entire industry of studies of other coherent radiation processes, all consisting of photon production from beams of relativistic charged particles traversing periodic structures, which constitute the principal subject matter of this Conference. This paper will be limited to the discussion of channeling radiation and some of its applications. It will be in the nature of an illustrative exposition, showing many of the features of channeling radiation and its applications in a qualitative way. Several detailed studies of channeling radiation will be presented later in the Conference.     

ABNORMAL ENERGY DEPENDENCE OF AXIAL MINIMUM CHANNELING YIELDS IN GexSi1-x/Si(100) STRAINED

An energy dependence of the axial minimum channeling yield in Ge_xSi_1-x/Si(100) Strained-layer superlattice is observed in the energy range of impinging He⁺ ione from 1.2 to 3.0 MeV. For [100] axial channeling, the measurements ere in agreement with what have been known in a single crystal. However, for [110] axial channeling, it is found that the minimum channeling yields increase markedly with the increase of He⁺ ion energy, which is contrary to the general channeling behaviors in a single crystal. A tentative model is suggested to explain this aberrance.     

Proton channeling studies in thin crystals with a supercollimated beam

Abstract

A supercollimated beam of 4 MeV H^? ions with an angular spread of 1.5 × 10^?3 degrees, a diameter of 25 μ and a current of 10 picoamps was used to study the axial and planar channeling characteristics of single crystal silicon samples ranging in thickness from 0.5 to 1.0 μ. Since the angular spread of the beam is much smaller than most of the gross angular phenomena associated with channeling, it is possible to study the detailed characteristics of both planar and axial channeling with greater precision than before. Preliminary results indicate that this technique will allow a direct study of interatomic or continuum potential distributions and will also be useful for studying nuclear multiple scattering as a function of the tranverse energy of channeled particles relative to atomic rows and planar directions.     

Size effect on different impurity levels in semiconductors — A comment

The results obtained for the strain energy corrections to O and Se donor ionization energies in GaP (at the P site) by Van Cong et al. in a recent communication [1] are shown to be fortuitous. It is pointed out that the results of Weinreich [2] are of the correct order unlike the results of Van Cong et al. which are too high in many cases and are not in agreement with experiment.     

Simulation of radiation energy losses by channeled relativistic electrons in a crystal

A computer code is developed to calculate the radiation energy losses (RELs) of electrons during both 〈100〉 axis and (100) plane channeling in a thin Si crystal. A computer simulation of these losses is carried out by taking the initial angular divergence of the beam into account, and the REL dependences on the angle of electron entry into the crystal are obtained for both axial and planar channeling (orientational dependences). The calculations are carried out in connection with experiments on the interaction of 20–255 MeV electrons with crystals conducted at the SAGA Light Source linear accelerator (Tosu, Saga, Japan). The simulation results show the possibility of using the orientational dependence of the RELs of channeled electrons in thin crystals to diagnose the initial angular divergence of the electron beam and to orient crystals.     

相关变量随机数序列产生方法

当采用蒙特卡罗方法对很多问题进行研究时,有时需要对多维相关随机变量进行抽样.之前的研究表明:在协方差矩阵满足正定条件时,可以采用Cholesky分解方法产生多维相关随机变量.本文首先对产生多维相关随机变量的理论公式进行了推导,发现采用Cholesky分解并不是产生多维相关随机变量的唯一方法,其他的矩阵分解方法只要能满足协方差矩阵的分解条件,同样可以用来产生多维相关随机变量.同时给出了采用协方差矩阵、相对协方差矩阵和相关系数矩阵产生多维随机变量的公式,以方便以后使用.在此基础上,利用一个简单测试题和Jacobi矩阵分解方法对上述理论进行了验证.通过对大亚湾中微子能谱进行抽样分析,Jacobi矩阵分解和Cholesky矩阵分解结果一致.针对核工程中的不确定性分析常用的~(238)U辐射俘获截面协方差矩阵进行分解时,由于协方差矩阵的矩阵本征值有负值,导致很多矩阵分解方法无法使用,在引入置零修正以后发现,与Cholesky对角线置零修正相比,Jacobi负本征值置零修正的误差更小.     

Large-angle channeling radiation from relativistic electrons in optically transparent crystals

In the work within the frame of quantum electrodynamics are obtained new formulae describing the large-angle photon emission from channeled electrons with taking into account of the dispersion of refractive index. Calculations based on these formulae show that the spectral and angular distributions of large-angle optical and ultraviolet radiation from planar channeled sub-GeV electrons in optically transparent crystal reflect the band structure of transverse energy levels of channeled electrons. Comparison with ordinary Cherenkov radiation spectrum reveals that channeling (depending on the beam energy) leads to sufficient change of the large-angle emission spectrum.     

Electromagnetic radiation of MeV electrons in thick aligned single crystals

Abstract

Earlier published theoretical models for MeV electrons are generalized in this paper. Different theoretical predictions for planar channeling and accompanying electromagnetic radiation in thick crystals are presented. A comparative analysis of theoretical and experimental spectra of photon radiation is given. Thickness dependences of channeling quantum state populations, radiation line broadening and photon flux intensities are obtained. The existence of planar electron channeling at 54 MeV in a silicon single crystal with a thickness of several millimetres is shown.     

Drying Characteristics-Property Correlationships in Gas-Fired Infrared Drying of Paper Obtained by Diffuse Reflectance FT-IR Spectroscopy

Introduction

Infrared (IR) drying of paper in a pilot scale has been investigated by several researchers in the past [1–3]. Both high-intensity electric heating and medium-intensity gas heating are now being used industrially either to preheat wet paper before conventional steam drying [1] or as a moisture-profile corrector just before paper sizing press [2]. Our own investigation [3] on the use of radiant energy from a gas-fired IR radiator have revealed that the drying efficiency of IR radiation is influenced by the nature of association of water molecules with cellulose in wet paper. Depending on the total moisture content of a paper, the free and bound moisture contents of paper will vary in wet paper sheet. Our previous study [3] has also confirmed that it is possible to remove free moisture more efficiently using gas-fired IR emitter operated at 1373 K rather than as 1223 K. It is reported that besides emitter temperature, the efficiency of drying also depends on the location of the emitter. In general, the efficiency is high if the emitter is installed near the preheating zone and the efficiency changes in the following order: falling rate < constant rate < preheating. Pikulik [4] compared the efficiency of hot gas impinging drying with conventional steam drying emphasizing the paper properties. The properties of a high-intensity hot gas-dried paper has been reported to be better than those of conventionally steam dried paper. An immediate quality improvement in terms of reduced moisture steaks and superior resistance to paper embrittleness was also observed when installing a high-intensity infrared drying system [5,6].     

Generation of gravitational radiation during channeling

The channeling effect of relativistic charged particles in crystals enables us to obtain a directed flow of monoenergetic short-wave gravitons. For existing accelerator beam currents it is possible to obtain several hundred graviton radiation events with an energy of several megaelectron volts.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 21–24, March, 1985.     

DTμ Physics and Its Application

A high-intensity neutron source that is highly correlated spatially and with time and will be used for neutron scattering experiments can be obtained by dt m catalyzed fusion by enhancing the formation rate of dtμ molecules using a high-intensity pulsed laser to dtμ gas. This paper considers the use of dtμ fusion for fast ignition of inertial confinement fusion, and the possibility of ensuring energy balance in energy production. dt fusion can be quickly ignited by depositing dtμ fusion energy into a smaller space than is done in other methods, such as Z-pinch or heavy-ion fusion. Space propulsion can be obtained with a light fuel mass rather than by a fission repulsion system using the muons produced by annihilation of the anti-protons stored in liquid superfluid of condensed He. Using an extremely highly compressed target can create a source of high luminosity muons for muon–muon collider- and neutrino-oscillation experiments. This approach can eliminate the need for a super-conducting solenoidal for capturing the beam of pions and muons generated in a large target, and then these pions and muons can be manipulated by a laser beam instead of by employing RF manipulation. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Features of the formation of radiation spectra at (111) planar channeling of relativistic electrons in a Si crystal

The spectral intensity of (111) channeling radiation from electrons is numerically calculated at the energy varying from 100 to 900 MeV and different electron incidence angles relative to the (111) planes in thin Si crystals. The calculation results show that the channeling radiation’s spectra have a more complicated structure, and the total channeling radiation’s yield is several times larger than that at (100) or (110) channeling.