Author: Weber, G.
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WEYGBD3 The CERN Gamma Factory Initiative: An Ultra-High Intensity Gamma Source 1780
 
  • M.W. Krasny
    LPNHE, Paris, France
  • R. Alemany-Fernández, H. Bartosik, N. Biancacci, P. Czodrowski, B. Goddard, S. Hirlaender, J.M. Jowett, R. Kersevan, M. Kowalska, M.W. Krasny, M. Lamont, D. Manglunki, A.V. Petrenko, M. Schaumann, C. Yin Vallgren, F. Zimmermann
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • P.S. Antsifarov
    Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Science, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
  • A. Apyan
    ANSL, Yerevan, Armenia
  • E.G. Bessonov
    LPI, Moscow, Russia
  • J. Bieron, K. Dzierzega, W. Placzek, S. Pustelny
    Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
  • D. Budker
    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institut für Physik, Mainz, Germany
  • K. Cassou, I. Chaikovska, R. Chehab, K. Dupraz, A. Martens, Z.F. Zomer
    LAL, Orsay, France
  • F. Castelli
    Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
  • C. Curatolo, L. Serafini
    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy
  • K. Kroeger
    FSU Jena, Jena, Germany
  • V. Petrillo
    Universita' degli Studi di Milano & INFN, Milano, Italy
  • V.P. Shevelko
    LPI RAS, Moscow, Russia
  • T. Stöhlker
    HIJ, Jena, Germany
  • G. Weber
    IOQ, Jena, Germany
  • Y.K. Wu
    FEL/Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
  • M.S. Zolotorev
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  This contribution discusses the possibility of broadening the present CERN research programme making use of a novel concept of light source. The proposed, Partially Stripped Ion beam driven, light source is the backbone of the Gamma Factory (GF) initiative. It could be realized at CERN by using the infrastructure of the already existing accelerators. It could push the intensity limits of the presently operating light-sources by up to 7 orders of magnitude, reaching fluxes of 1017 photons/s in the interesting gamma-ray energy domain between 1 MeV and 400 MeV. The GF light-source cannot be replaced, in this energy domain, by a FEL source as long as the multi TeV electron beams are not available. Its intensity is beyond the reach of the Inverse Compton Scattering sources. The unprecedented-intensity, energy-tuned gamma beams, together with the gamma-beams-driven secondary beams of polarized leptons, neutrinos, neutrons and radioactive ions are the basic research tools of the proposed Gamma Factory. A broad spectrum of new opportunities, in a vast domain of uncharted fundamental and applied physics territories, could be opened by the Gamma Factory research programme.  
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THPMF015 Lifetime and Beam Losses Studies of Partially Strip Ions in the SPS (129Xe39+) 4070
 
  • S. Hirlaender, R. Alemany-Fernández, H. Bartosik, N. Biancacci, T. Bohl, S. Cettour Cave, K. Cornelis, B. Goddard, V. Kain, M.W. Krasny, M. Lamont, D. Manglunki, G. Papotti, M. Schaumann, F. Zimmermann
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • K. Kroeger
    FSU Jena, Jena, Germany
  • V.P. Shevelko
    LPI RAS, Moscow, Russia
  • T. Stöhlker, G. Weber
    IOQ, Jena, Germany
 
  The CERN multipurpose Gamma Factory proposal relies on using Partially Stripped Ion (PSI) beams, instead of electron beams, as the drivers of its light source. If such beams could be successfully stored in the LHC ring, fluxes of the order of 1017 photons/s, in the gamma-ray energy domain between 1 MeV and 400 MeV could be achieved. This energy domain is out of reach for the FEL-based light sources as long as the multi TeV electron beams are not available. The CERN Gamma Factory proposal has the potential of increasing by 7 orders of magnitude the intensity limits of the present Inverse Compton Scattering sources. In 2017 the CERN accelerator complex demonstrated its flexibility by producing a new, xenon, ion beam. The Gamma Factory study group, based on this achievement, requested special studies. Its aim was to inject and to accelerate, in the SPS, partially stripped xenon ions Xe39+ measure their life time, and determine the relative strength of the processes responsible for the PSI beam losses. This study, the results of which are presented in this contribution, was an initial step in view of the the future studies programmed for 2018 with lead PSI beams.  
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