N2 and Xe gas scintillation cross-section, spectrum, and lifetime measurements from 50 MeV to 25 GeV at the CERN PS and Booster

Beam parameters in CERN's Proton Synchrotron (PS) accelerator must be controlled (and measured) with tighter precision than ever before to meet the stringent requirements of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) program. A nondestructive beam profile measurement system would be a valuable diagnostic tool. To this end, we measured N-2 and Xe gas scintillation absolute cross-sections and lifetimes for proton beam energies from 1.4 to 25 GeV kinetic energy, which should prove valuable in the design and construction of a gas scintillation profile measurement system. We also measured relative cross-sections for proton beam energies between 0.05 and 1.4 GeV kinetic energy. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.