High energy Free Electron Laser for nuclear applications
Accelerator Physics
2018-04-03 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
The capability of Free-Electron Lasers to generate photon beams with record performances in the domain of MeV-class photon energy for nuclear photonics applications is here analyzed. We discuss possible nuclear FEL working points. Some typical situations are presented and simulated by means of the three-dimensional code GENESIS 1.3. The losses by spontaneous emission and by wakefield induced energy spread are then evaluated. The calculations show the possibility of generating FEL radiation at 1-4 MeV with less than 300 eV of bandwidth with not prohibitive set up requirements, achieving therefore regimes where no other kind of gamma ray sources could arrive.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.00544,
title = {High energy Free Electron Laser for nuclear applications},
author = {R. Brinkmann and F. Camera and I. Drebot and V. Petrillo and M. Rossetti Conti and L. Serafini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00544},
year = {2018}
}