Author: Chasman, C.
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MOP209 Proposed Scattered Electron Detector System as One of the Beam Overlap Diagnostic Tools for the New RHIC Electron Lens 489
 
  • P. Thieberger, E.N. Beebe, C. Chasman, W. Fischer, D.M. Gassner, X. Gu, R.C. Gupta, J. Hock, R.F. Lambiase, Y. Luo, M.G. Minty, C. Montag, M. Okamura, A.I. Pikin, Y. Tan, J.E. Tuozzolo, W. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
An electron lens for head-on beam-beam compensation planned for RHIC requires precise overlap of the electron and proton beams which both can have down to 0.3 mm rms transverse radial widths along the 2m long interaction region. Here we describe a new diagnostic tool that is being considered to aid in the tuning and verification of this overlap. Some of ultra relativistic protons (100 or 250 GeV) colliding with low energy electrons (2 to 10 keV) will transfer sufficient transverse momentum to cause the electrons to spiral around the magnetic guiding field in a way that will make them detectable outside of the main solenoid. Time-of-flight of the halo electron signals will provide position-sensitive information along the overlap region. Scattering cross sections are calculated and counting rate estimates are presented as function of electron energy and detector position.