Gamma Factory at CERN -- novel research tools made of light
Abstract
We discuss the possibility of creating novel research tools by producing and storing highly relativistic beams of highly ionised atoms in the CERN accelerator complex, and by exciting their atomic degrees of freedom with lasers to produce high-energy photon beams. Intensity of such photon beams would be by several orders of magnitude higher than offered by the presently operating light sources, in the particularly interesting gamma-ray energy domain of 0.1-400 MeV. In this energy range, the high-intensity photon beams can be used to produce secondary beams of polarised electrons, polarised positrons, polarised muons, neutrinos, neutrons and radioactive ions. New research opportunities in a wide domain of fundamental and applied physics can be opened by the Gamma Factory scientific programme based on the above primary and secondary beams.
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@article{arxiv.1903.09032,
title = {Gamma Factory at CERN -- novel research tools made of light},
author = {W. Placzek and A. Abramov and S. E. Alden and R. Alemany Fernandez and P. S. Antsiferov and A. Apyan and H. Bartosik and E. G. Bessonov and N. Biancacci and J. Bieron and A. Bogacz and A. Bosco and R. Bruce and D. Budker and K. Cassou and F. Castelli and I. Chaikovska and C. Curatolo and P. Czodrowski and A. Derevianko and K. Dupraz and Y. Dutheil and K. Dzierzega and V. Fedosseev and N. Fuster Martinez and S. M. Gibson and B. Goddard and A. Gorzawski and S. Hirlander and J. Jowett and R. Kersevan and M. Kowalska and M. W. Krasny and F. Kroeger and M. Lamont and T. Lefevre and D. Manglunki and B. Marsh and A. Martens and J. Molson and D. Nutarelli and L. J. Nevay and A. Petrenko and V. Petrillo and S. Radaelli and S. Pustelny and S. Rochester and M. Sapinski and M. Schaumann and L. Serafini and V. P. Shevelko and T. Stoehlker and A. Surzhikov and I. Tolstikhina and F. Velotti and G. Weber and Y. K. Wu and C. Yin-Vallgren and M. Zanetti and F. Zimmermann and M. S. Zolotorev and F. Zomer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09032},
year = {2019}
}
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12 pages; presented by W. Placzek at the XXV Cracow Epiphany Conference on Advances in Heavy Ion Physics, 8-11 January 2019, Cracow, Poland