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Test samples of detectors and electronics for them constructed for the purpose of monitoring the “intense” relativistic ion beams extracted from the accelerator of the Nuclotron-M accelerator complex in real time are described. The system was tested in a series of acceleration runs with deuteron beams with an intensity of up to 1010 1/s and beams of carbon nuclei. The system allows one to perform multiple measurements of the two-dimensional distribution of the beam intensity in the plane perpendicular to it and the beam position in this plane during the beam dump and measure the two-dimensional distribution of the target irradiation dose after each beam dump.
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Original Russian Text © S.E. Vasilev, A.V. Vishnevskiy, M.G. Kadykov, A.M. Makankin, S.I. Tyutyunnikov, A.A. Shurygin, 2014, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2014.
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Vasilev, S.E., Vishnevskiy, A.V., Kadykov, M.G. et al. Development of a system for monitoring the shape, position, and intensity of the extracted relativistic ion beam at the Nuclotron-M accelerator complex at JINR. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 11, 788–796 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477114060168
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