Novel high intensity gamma-source at CERN: the Gamma Factory Initiative | Zendy

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Novel high intensity gamma-source at CERN: the Gamma Factory Initiative

Author(s) -

C. Curatolo,

W. Płaczek,

M. W. Krasny,

L. Serafini,

M. Zanetti

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

proceedings of sixth annual conference on large hadron collider physics — pos(lhcp2018)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.22323/1.321.0089

Subject(s) - physics , large hadron collider , nuclear physics , gamma ray , muon collider , neutrino factory , photon , monte carlo method , neutrino , muon , neutron , flux (metallurgy) , radiation , intensity (physics) , particle accelerator , optics , beam (structure) , materials science , neutrino oscillation , statistics , mathematics , metallurgy

Collisions of Partially Stripped Ions (PSI) with laser light to produce high intensity gamma-ray beams are the backbone of the Gamma Factory (GF) initiative. The source, if realised at LHC, could significantly push up the intensity limits of the presently operating ones, reaching the flux of the order of 10^17 photons/s, in the particularly interesting gamma-ray energy domain of 1 to 400 MeV. The unprecedented-intensity, energy-tuned gamma beams, together with the gamma-beams-driven secondary beams of polarized positrons, polarized muons, neutrinos, neutrons and radioactive ions would constitute the basic research tools of the proposed Gamma Factory. We discuss the GF concept and the preliminary estimates of the emitted gamma beams phase spaces given by two newly developed Monte Carlo codes which simulate the PSI-laser interactions.

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