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High Energy & High Luminosity $\gamma\gamma$ Colliders

Accelerator Physics 2022-10-28 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

With the best of modern standard lasers, high-energy γγ\gamma\gamma colliders from electron beams of E larger than 250 GeV are only possible at the expense of photon luminosity, i.e. 10 times lower than for photon colliders at c.m. energies below 0.5 TeV. For existing state-of-the art lasers, an optimistic upper energy limit for x=4.8 is an electron beam of less than 250 GeV. This Snowmass21 Contributed Paper shows how Free Electron Lasers (FEL) pave the way for High Energy & High Luminosity γγ\gamma\gamma colliders. We present and assess a conceptual design study of a FEL with wavelength of 2.4 μ\mum and an x-factor in the range of 2 to 40, to maximize the luminosity of a γγ\gamma\gamma collider as second interaction region of 0.5 TeV to 10 TeV c.m. e+ee^+e^- colliders.

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@article{arxiv.2203.08353,
  title  = {High Energy & High Luminosity $\gamma\gamma$ Colliders},
  author = {Emanuela Barzi and Barry C. Barish and William A. Barletta and Ilya F. Ginzburg and Simone Di Mitri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.08353},
  year   = {2022}
}

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