The Gamma Factory for CERN: conceptual foundation, feasibility studies and research opportunities

Thursday 22 Nov 2018, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)

Speaker: M.W. Krasny, Paris-Sorbonne University and BE-ABP Group CERN

Abstract:

In this talk I shall discuss the possibility of broadening the present CERN research programme by adding new research tools to its infrastructure. These tools could be created at CERN by storing atomic beams in its high energy storage rings and by using them as the drivers of a novel type of light source. The atomic beam driven light source is the backbone of the Gamma Factory initiative. Its target is to push the intensity limits of the presently operating light-sources by up to 7 orders of magnitude, in the particularly interesting $\gamma$-ray energy domain of \mbox{ $0.1  \le E_{photon} \le 400$  MeV.}  This energy domain is out of reach for the FEL-based light sources as long as the TeV-scale electron beams are not available. 
The unprecedented-intensity, energy-tuned,  gamma  beams,  together with the gamma-beams-driven secondary beams of polarised positrons, polarised muons, neutrinos, neutrons and radioactive ions constitute  the basic research tools of the proposed Gamma Factory. A broad spectrum of new  research opportunities,  in vast domains of fundamental and applied physics territories, could be opened by the Gamma Factory research programme.