New capabilities of the FLUKA multi-purpose code

C Ahdida, D Bozzato, D Calzolari, F Cerutti… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
FLUKA is a general purpose Monte Carlo code able to describe the transport and interaction
of any particle and nucleus type in complex geometries over an energy range extending …

Channeling and volume reflection of high-energy charged particles in short bent crystals. Crystal assisted collimation of the accelerator beam halo

W Scandale, AM Taratin - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
The experimental studies of high-energy charged particle deflection due to planar and axial
channeling as well as volume reflection and multi volume reflections in short bent crystals at …

Advanced channeling technologies for X-ray applications

S Dabagov, YP Gladkikh - Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown the feasibility of channeling phenomenology applications to
describe various mechanisms of interaction of charged and neutral particle beams and …

Reducing beam-related background on forward physics detectors using crystal collimation at the large hadron collider

D Mirarchi, V Avati, R Bruce, M Butcher, M D'Andrea… - Physical review applied, 2020 - APS
Beam collimation in high-energy colliders is customarily carried out by means of massive
amorphous absorbers surrounding the circulating beam. Several studies were performed in …

The ArduSiPM a compact trasportable software/hardware data acquisition system for SiPM detector

V Bocci, G Chiodi, F Iacoangeli… - 2014 IEEE Nuclear …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The acquisition of a single Silicon Photomultiplier require multiple and expensive electronics
modules as: preamplifier, discriminator, bias voltage power supply, temperature monitor …

Focusing of 180 GeV/c pions from a point-like source into a parallel beam by a bent silicon crystal

W Scandale, G Arduini, F Cerutti, M Garattini… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2019 - Elsevier
At large accelerators, bent crystals are employed to deflect weakly divergent proton beams
at the stages of extraction and collimation. We demonstrate that a divergent particle beam …

Comprehensive study of beam focusing by crystal devices

W Scandale, G Arduini, F Cerutti, M Garattini… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2018 - APS
This paper is devoted to an experimental study of focusing and defocusing positively
charged particle beams with the help of specially bent single crystals. Four crystals have …

[HTML][HTML] Study of inelastic nuclear interactions of 400 GeV/c protons in bent silicon crystals for beam steering purposes

W Scandale, F Andrisani, G Arduini, F Cerutti… - The European Physical …, 2018 - Springer
Inelastic nuclear interaction probability of 400 GeV/c protons interacting with bent silicon
crystals was investigated, in particular for both types of crystals installed at the CERN Large …

Focusing of high energy particles with the help of bent single crystal

VA Maisheev, YA Chesnokov, PN Chirkov - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this report, the continuation of studies (Afonin et al., 2003, 2012; Scandale et al., 2014) of
focusing properties of bent single crystals is presented. Recently, the possibility of …

Short-focus crystal device and its applications on modern accelerators

AG Afonin, AG Vasilyeva, AA Durum, MY Kostin… - Physics of Particles and …, 2022 - Springer
This paper describes an experiment on focusing a proton beam with an energy of 50 GeV on
the U‑70 accelerator using a crystal device. The focusing device is based on the use of …