Authors:	Budker, Dmitry Berengut, Julian C. Flambaum, Victor V. Gorchtein, Mikhail Jin, Junlan Karbstein, Felix Krasny, Mieczyslaw Witold Litvinov, Yuri A. Pálffy, Adriana Pascalutsa, Vladimir Petrenko, Alexey Surzhykov, Andrey Thirolf, Peter G. Vanderhaeghen, Marc Weidenmüller, Hans A. Zelevinsky, Vladimir
Title:	Expanding nuclear physics horizons with the Gamma Factory
Online publication date:	25-Oct-2022
Year of first publication:	2022
Language:	english
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 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.
DDC:	530 Physik 530 Physics
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 08 Physik, Mathematik u. Informatik Helmholtz Institut Mainz
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8027
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal:	Annalen der Physik 534 3
Pages or article number:	2100284
Publisher:	Wiley-VCH
Publisher place:	Berlin
Issue date:	2022
ISSN:	1521-3889
Publisher DOI:	10.1002/andp.202100284
Appears in collections:	DFG-491381577-H