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Channeling bends particle beams and generates x rays

MAY 01, 1980

DOI: 10.1063/1.2914073

Bertram M. Schwarzschild

As the energies of the particles they study climb toward $10^{12}$ electron volts (1 TeV), high‐energy physicists find it increasingly difficult to bend their trajectories with large electromagnets. Even with superconducting coils, these magnets are limited by saturation to a few tens of kilogauss, so that a 500‐GeV proton ring requires a radius of the order of a kilometer. But now, a Soviet–American collaboration at Dubna has reported observing a phenomenon that may make it possible to bend 500‐GeV protons with a radius of curvature not much more than a meter.

© 1980. American Institute of Physics

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Volume 33, Number 5

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