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Mean volume reflection angle

Accelerator Physics 2020-04-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The mean volume reflection angle of a high-energy charged particle passing through a bent crystal is expressed as an integral involving the effective interplanar potential over a single crystal period. Implications for positively and negatively charged particles, and silicon crystal orientations (110) and (111) are discussed. A generic next-to-leading-order expansion in the ratio E/RE/R of the particle energy EE to the crystal bending radius RR is given. For positively charged particles, the dependence of the mean volume reflection angle on E/RE/R proves to be approximately linear, whereas for negatively charged particles the linear behaviour is modified by an E/RE/R-dependent logarithmic factor. Up-to-date experimental data are confronted with predictions based on commonly used atomic potentials.

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@article{arxiv.2003.02119,
  title  = {Mean volume reflection angle},
  author = {M. V. Bondarenco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.02119},
  year   = {2020}
}

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20 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. AB

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