Roman pot

The Roman pot is the name of a technique (and of the relevant device) used in accelerator physics. Named after its implementation by the CERN-Rome collaboration in the early 1970s,[1][2] it is an important tool to measure the total cross section of two particle beams in a collider.[3] They are called pots because the detectors are housed in cylindrical vessels. The first generation of Roman pots was purpose-built by the CERN Central Workshops and used in the measurement of the total cross-section of proton-proton inter-actions in the ISR.[4][5][6]

Roman pots are located as close to the beamline as possible, to capture the accelerated particles which scatter by very small angles.

  1. ^ Experiments at the ISR. 1971.
  2. ^ "Giuseppe Cocconi (1914 - 2008)". CERN Bulletin. 2008.
  3. ^ Holzer, B. J.; Goddard, B.; Herr, Werner; Muratori, Bruno; Rivkin, L.; Biagini, M. E.; Jowett, J. M.; Hanke, K.; Fischer, W. (2020). "Design and Principles of Synchrotrons and Circular Colliders". In Myers, Stephen; Schopper, Herwig (eds.). Particle Physics Reference Library. Cham: Springer Open. pp. 205–294. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34245-6_6. ISBN 978-3-030-34245-6.
  4. ^ Bryant, P. J. (1971). Run 118 - 3 November 1971 - 06.30 to 08.00h, Rings 1 and 2 - 15 GeV/c - Physics beams: Creation of low background conditions while the Roman pots are within 2 mm of the beam. ISR Running-in.
  5. ^ New-style Roman Pots in the ISR. Geneva: CERN. 1980.
  6. ^ Fabjan, Christian; Hübner, Kurt (2017). The Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR): The First Hadron Collider. Vol. 27. World Scientific. pp. 87–133. Bibcode:2017cern.book...87F. doi:10.1142/9789814749145_0004. ISBN 978-981-4749-13-8. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)