COMPUTER-SIMULATION OF BEAM-STEERING BY CRYSTAL CHANNELING

The Monte Carlo computer program catch for the simulation of planar channeling in bent crystals is presented. The program tracks a charged particle through the deformed crystal lattice with the use of the continuous-potential approximation and by taking into account the processes of both single and multiple scattering on electrons and nuclei. The output consists of the exit angular distributions, the energy loss spectra, and the spectra of any close-encounter process of interest. The program predictions for the feed-out and feed-in rates, energy loss spectra, and beam bending efficiency are compared with the recent experimental data. © 1995 The American Physical Society.