First observations of beam losses due to bound-free pair production in a heavy-ion collider

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dc.creatorBruce, R.
dc.creatorDrees, A.
dc.creatorFischer, W.
dc.creatorGilardoni, S.
dc.creatorJowett, J. M.
dc.creatorKlein, S. R.
dc.creatorTepikian, S.
dc.date2007-06-15
dc.date2007-10-05
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:41:18Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:41:18Z
dc.descriptionWe report the first observations of beam losses due to bound-free pair production at the interaction point of a heavy-ion collider. This process is expected to be a major luminosity limit for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) when it operates with 208Pb82+ ions because the localized energy deposition by the lost ions may quench superconducting magnet coils. Measurements were performed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) during operation with 100 GeV/nucleon 63Cu29+ ions. At RHIC, the rate, energy and magnetic field are low enough so that magnet quenching is not an issue. The hadronic showers produced when the single-electron ions struck the RHIC beampipe were observed using an array of photodiodes. The measurement confirms the order of magnitude of the theoretical cross section previously calculated by others.
dc.description4 pages, 5 figures. Added journal ref. Corrected typos. Fixed fig 1. Minor improvements to fig. 1,3,4. Rephrased a small number of sentences (p1,3,4). Added numerical values of the aperture and the displacement for Au (p 2). Changed reference 5, added name in acknowledgments (p 4)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2292
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2292
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett.99:144801,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.144801
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/200485
dc.subjectAccelerator Physics
dc.subjectNuclear Experiment
dc.titleFirst observations of beam losses due to bound-free pair production in a heavy-ion collider
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