Expanding Nuclear Physics Horizons with the Gamma Factory
Abstract
The Gamma Factory (GF) is an ambitious proposal, currently explored within the CERN Physics Beyond Colliders program, for a source of photons with energies up to MeV and photon fluxes (up to photons per second) exceeding those of the currently available gamma sources by orders of magnitude. The high-energy (secondary) photons are produced via resonant scattering of the primary laser photons by highly relativistic partially-stripped ions circulating in the accelerator. The secondary photons are emitted in a narrow cone and the energy of the beam can be monochromatized, eventually down to the ppm level, via collimation, at the expense of the photon flux. This paper surveys the new opportunities that may be afforded by the GF in nuclear physics and related fields.
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@article{arxiv.2106.06584,
title = {Expanding Nuclear Physics Horizons with the Gamma Factory},
author = {Dmitry Budker and Julian C. Berengut and Victor V. Flambaum and Mikhail Gorchtein and Junlan Jin and Felix Karbstein and Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny and Yuri A. Litvinov and Adriana Pálffy and Vladimir Pascalutsa and Alexey Petrenko and Andrey Surzhykov and Peter G. Thirolf and Marc Vanderhaeghen and Hans A. Weidenmüller and Vladimir Zelevinsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.06584},
year = {2022}
}
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69 pages, 13 tables, 33 figures