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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
14
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-10-12
pubmed:abstractText
We 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 CERN Large Hadron Collider when it operates with (208)Pb(82+) ions because the localized energy deposition by the lost ions may quench superconducting magnet coils. Measurements were performed at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) during operation with 100 GeV/nucleon (63)Cu(29+) 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 beam pipe were observed using an array of photodiodes. The measurement confirms the order of magnitude of the theoretical cross section previously calculated by others.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0031-9007
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
99
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
144801
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Observations of beam losses due to bound-free pair production in a heavy-ion collider.
pubmed:affiliation
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. roderik.bruce@cern.ch
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article