Expanding Nuclear Physics Horizons with the Gamma Factory

Budker, Dmitry; Berengut, Julian C.; Flambaum, Victor V.; Gorchtein, Mikhail; Jin, Junlan; Karbstein, Felix; Krasny, Mieczyslaw Witold; Litvinov, Yuri A.; Palffy, Adriana; Pascalutsa, Vladimir; Petrenko, Alexey; Surzhykov, Andrey; Thirolf, Peter G.; Vanderhaeghen, Marc; Weidenmueller, Hans A. and Zelevinsky, Vladimir (2022): Expanding Nuclear Physics Horizons with the Gamma Factory. In: Annalen der Physik, Vol. 534, No. 3, 2100284

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 approximate to 400 MeV and photon fluxes (up to approximate to 10(17) photons s(-1)) 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, down to 10(-3)-10(-6) 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.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Physics
• Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
• ISSN: 0003-3804
• Language: English
• DFG: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 390831469
• DFG: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 392856280
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