1. Gamma Factory for CERN initiative - progress report
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Kevin Cassou, Fabrizio Castelli, Vitoria Petrillo, Alexey Petrenko, Thibaut Lefèvre, Max Zolotorev, Valentine Fedosseev, Luca Serafini, Krzystof Dzierzega, Marco Zanetti, Pavel Antsiferov, Nicolo Biancacci, F. Kroeger, Stefano Redaelli, Mariusz Sapinski, Y. Peinaud, Laurence Nevay, A. Apyan, Alex Bogacz, Daniele Naturelli, Michaela Schaumann, Iryna Chaikovska, E.G. Bessonov, Aurélien Martens, Roderik Bruce, Szymon Putelny, Richard Scrivens, Detlef Kuchler, Kevin Dupraz, John Jowett, Christina Yin Vallgren, C. Curatolo, Arkadiusz Gorzawski, Jacek Bieron, Roberto Kersevan, Yann Dutheil, Django Manglunki, Ying Wu, Patrick Czodrowski, Wieslaw Placzek, A. Bosco, Francesco Maria Velotti, Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Thomas Stoehlker, Nuria Fuster Martinez, Magdalena Kowalska, Gunter Weber, Brennan Goddard, Simon Hirlander, Inga Tolstikhina, Mike Lamont, Hannes Bartosik, Bruce Marsh, Andrei Derevianko, Frank Zimmermann, Andrey Abramov, James Molson, Simon Rochester, Siobhan Alden, Fabian Zomer, Viacheslav Shevelko, Andrey Surzhykov, Stephen Gibson, Reyes Alemany Fernandez, Dmitry Budker, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Lille-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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CERN Lab ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ACC-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Accelerator Physics [physics.acc-ph] ,chemistry.chemical_element ,ion: beam ,gamma ray: burst ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,law.invention ,Nuclear physics ,Xenon ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,lead: ion ,010306 general physics ,Collider ,activity report ,Laser light ,Physics ,Large Hadron Collider ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Photon source ,CERN SPS ,Accelerators and Storage Rings ,xenon ,laser ,chemistry ,Factory (object-oriented programming) ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,ion ,Beam (structure) ,performance - Abstract
International audience; The Gamma Factory (GF) initiative proposes to use partially stripped ion (PSI) beams as drivers of a new type of high-intensity and high-energy (0.1–400 MeV) photon source. As part of the ongoing Physics Beyond Collider studies, initial beam tests were carried out in 2017 and 2018 at the SPS and LHC with partially stripped xenon and lead beams. This contribution discusses the results of these tests and the preparations for the next GF R&D step: the proof-of-principle experiment at the SPS to study interaction of PSI beams with the laser light
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- 2020
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