Classical mechanical treatment of charged particle beam optics is so far very satisfactory from a practical point of view in applications ranging from electron microscopy to accelerator technology. However, it is desirable to understand the underlying quantum mechanics since the classical treatment is only an approximation. Quantum mechanical treatment of spin2 particle beam transport through o...

A beam propagating in a continuous, linear focusing channel tends to relax to a thermal equilibrium state. We employ nonlinear conservation constraints to theoretically analyze changes in quantities that characterize both an initial semi-Gaussian beam with a matched rms beam envelope and a K-V beam under a relaxation to thermal equilibrium. Results from particle-in-cell simulations are compared...

A new type deflector of a charged particle beam based on pyroelectric crystals is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. The transverse electric field arises in the gap between two pyroelectric crystals in vacuum because of the pyroelectric effect appearing when a temperature gradient is applied to both crystals. In a proof-of-principle experiment, we demonstrated deflection of a low-energy ...

Charged-particle beam optics, or the theory of transport of charged-particle beams through electromagnetic systems, is traditionally dealt with using classical mechanics. Though the classical treatment has been very successful, in designing and working of numerous charged-particle optical devices, it is natural to look for a deeper understanding based on the quantum theory, since any system is ...

Extremely low emittance and high current electron beam is one of the vital characteristics for linear colliders or X-ray FEL's. Parallel developments of non-invasive beam diagnostics are strongly required for realizing such beams. Detection of Optical Diffraction Radiation (ODR), because of its non-destructive nature, is the most promising technique for the application to the non-invasive beam ...

Design of particle accelerators with intense beams requires careful control of space charge problem. To obtain accurate treatment of the problem, solution of the Poisson's equation for electrostatic potential created by an arbitrary space charge distribution of the beam is required. Numerical routines developed for 2D and 3D space charge field calculation of high current beam are examined. Two ...

A particle beam of very small cross-section is useful in many accelerator applications including biological and medical ones. We show the capability of channeling technique using a micron-sized structure on a surface of a single crystal, or using a nanotube, to produce beam of a cross-section down to 1 square micrometer (or nanometer). The channeled beam can be deflected and well separated in a...

Detailed studies of the resolution of a EUDET-type beam telescope are carried out using the DATURA beam telescope as an example. The EUDET-type beam telescopes make use of CMOS MIMOSA 26 pixel detectors for particle tracking allowing for precise characterisation of particle sensing devices. A profound understanding of the performance of the beam telescope as a whole is obtained by a detailed ch...

The ability to controllably rotate, align, or freely spin microparticles in optical tweezers greatly enhances the manipulation possible. A variety of different techniques for achieving alignment or rotation have been suggested and demonstrated. Although these methods are diverse, employing specially shaped particles, birefringent particles, multiple trapping beams, complex beam profiles, vortex...

General Particle Tracer (GPT) is a particle tracking code, which includes 3D space charge effect based on a nonequidistant multigrid Poisson solver or a point-to-point method. It is used to investigate beam dynamics in ERL and FEL injectors. We have developed a new routine to simulate coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) in GPT based on the formalism of Sagan [1]. The routine can calculate 1D-w...