Expanding Nuclear Physics Horizons with the Gamma Factory

verfasst von
Dmitry Budker, Julian C. Berengut, Victor V. Flambaum, Mikhail Gorchtein, Junlan Jin, Felix Karbstein, Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Yuri A. Litvinov, Adriana Pálffy, Vladimir Pascalutsa, Alexey Petrenko, Andrey Surzhykov, Peter G. Thirolf, Marc Vanderhaeghen, Hans A. Weidenmüller, Vladimir Zelevinsky
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 ≈400 MeV and photon fluxes (up 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.

Typ
Übersichtsarbeit
Journal
Annalen der Physik
Band
534
Seiten
2100284
Anzahl der Seiten
1
ISSN
1521-3889
Publikationsdatum
08.03.2022
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Physik und Astronomie (insg.)
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2106.06584 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.202100284 (Zugang: Offen)