PAC2013 - List of Authors (Still, D.A.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPAC18	Feasibility Study of Channeling Acceleration Experiment at the Fermilab ASTA Facility	105
	Y.-M. Shin, T. Xu Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, USA V.D. Shiltsev, D.A. Still Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	The density of charge carriers in solids, 4 ~ 5 orders of magnitude higher than those in gaseous plasma, can in principle create an accelerating field gradient up to 10 – 31.6 TeV/m. This extremely high acceleration gradient can offer various opportunities in accelerator community for future HEP collider in Energy Frontier. It was suggested that particles are accelerated along major crystallographic directions. The ions and photons are readily confined in the atomic tunnel of an angstrom-scale aperture, so called the channeling effect, which can accelerate heavy particles like muons from an x-ray laser or electrons from a drive beam. Carbon-based nanostructures have great potential with a wide range of flexibility and superior physical strength, which can be applied to channeling acceleration. The ASTA in Fermilab is currently designed with 1 ps electron bunch with 1 ms duration and 5 Hz PRR at 50 – 300 MeV, which is properly fit for the channeling acceleration test. This paper will present current activity on crystal accelerator research, including acceleration concepts with crystals and nanotubes, and discuss feasible experiments with the ASTA and beyond.

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Feasibility Study of Channeling Acceleration Experiment at the Fermilab ASTA Facility

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Y.-M. Shin, T. Xu
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, USA
V.D. Shiltsev, D.A. Still
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

The density of charge carriers in solids, 4 ~ 5 orders of magnitude higher than those in gaseous plasma, can in principle create an accelerating field gradient up to 10 – 31.6 TeV/m. This extremely high acceleration gradient can offer various opportunities in accelerator community for future HEP collider in Energy Frontier. It was suggested that particles are accelerated along major crystallographic directions. The ions and photons are readily confined in the atomic tunnel of an angstrom-scale aperture, so called the channeling effect, which can accelerate heavy particles like muons from an x-ray laser or electrons from a drive beam. Carbon-based nanostructures have great potential with a wide range of flexibility and superior physical strength, which can be applied to channeling acceleration. The ASTA in Fermilab is currently designed with 1 ps electron bunch with 1 ms duration and 5 Hz PRR at 50 – 300 MeV, which is properly fit for the channeling acceleration test. This paper will present current activity on crystal accelerator research, including acceleration concepts with crystals and nanotubes, and discuss feasible experiments with the ASTA and beyond.