Expanding Nuclear Physics Horizons with the Gamma Factory

2021/06/11 by Dmitry Budker, Julian C. Berengut, J. C. Berengut +19 · 48 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #B-factory #Collimated light #Large Hadron Collider #Laser #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Nuclear physics #Nuclear physics research studies #Optics #Particle physics #Photon #Physics #hep-ex #nucl-ex #nucl-th #physics.acc-ph #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1002/andp.202100284

published in Annalen der Physik 534(3) (Wiley) · 69 pages, 13 tables, 33 figures

arxiv created 2021/06/11 · openalex publication_date 2022/01/31 · arxiv updated 2022/03/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

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 ≈ 10¹⁷ photons per second) 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, eventually down to the ≈1 ppm 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.

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