Thursday, November 8, 2018, 16:00
OSGA/E06
Witold Krasny,
Directeur de Recherche CNRS, LPNHE;
Sorbonne University, Paris;
BE division, CERN, Geneva
Abstract:
In this talk I shall discuss the recent initiative of broadening the present CERN
research programme by including a new component exploiting a novel concept
of the light source. The proposed, partially stripped ion beam driven, light source
is the backbone of the Gamma Factory 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, in
the particularly interesting gamma-ray energy domain of 0.1 — 400 MeV.
The partially stripped ion beams, the unprecedented-intensity energy-tuned
gamma beams, together with the gamma-beam-driven secondary beams
of polarized positrons, polarized muons, neutrinos, neutrons and radioactive ions constitute
the basic research tools of the Gamma Factory. A broad spectrum of new research
opportunities, in a vast domain of uncharted fundamental and applied physics territories,
could be opened by the Gamma Factory. The status of the project and the examples of
its research opportunities will be presented in this talk.