Atomic Physics Studies at the Gamma Factory at CERN

authored by: Dmitry Budker, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia, Andrei Derevianko, Victor V. Flambaum, Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Alexey Petrenko, Szymon Pustelny, Andrey Surzhykov, Vladimir A. Yerokhin, Max Zolotorev
Abstract: The Gamma Factory initiative proposes to develop novel research tools at CERN by producing, accelerating, and storing highly relativistic, partially stripped ion beams in the SPS and LHC storage rings. By exciting the electronic degrees of freedom of the stored ions with lasers, high-energy narrow-band photon beams will be produced by properly collimating the secondary radiation that is peaked in the direction of ions' propagation. Their intensities, up to 10¹⁷ photons per second, will be several orders of magnitude higher than those of the presently operating light sources in the particularly interesting γ–ray energy domain reaching up to 400 MeV. This article reviews opportunities that may be afforded by utilizing the primary beams for spectroscopy of partially stripped ions circulating in the storage ring, as well as the atomic-physics opportunities made possible by the use of the secondary high-energy photon beams. The Gamma Factory will enable ground-breaking experiments in spectroscopy and novel ways of testing fundamental symmetries of nature.
External Organisation(s): Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
University of California at Berkeley
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
University of Nevada, Reno
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Massey University
Universite Paris 6
CERN
RAS - Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
Jagiellonian University
Technische Universität Braunschweig
St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB)
Type: Review article
Journal: Annalen der Physik
Volume: 532
ISSN: 0003-3804
Publication date: 13.08.2020
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Physics and Astronomy(all)
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.202000204 (Access: Open)

BibTeX

@article{97cfda0ab14048d29f3ac71e21a9a648,
title = "Atomic Physics Studies at the Gamma Factory at CERN",
abstract = "The Gamma Factory initiative proposes to develop novel research tools at CERN by producing, accelerating, and storing highly relativistic, partially stripped ion beams in the SPS and LHC storage rings. By exciting the electronic degrees of freedom of the stored ions with lasers, high-energy narrow-band photon beams will be produced by properly collimating the secondary radiation that is peaked in the direction of ions' propagation. Their intensities, up to 1017 photons per second, will be several orders of magnitude higher than those of the presently operating light sources in the particularly interesting γ–ray energy domain reaching up to 400 MeV. This article reviews opportunities that may be afforded by utilizing the primary beams for spectroscopy of partially stripped ions circulating in the storage ring, as well as the atomic-physics opportunities made possible by the use of the secondary high-energy photon beams. The Gamma Factory will enable ground-breaking experiments in spectroscopy and novel ways of testing fundamental symmetries of nature.",
keywords = "atomic spectroscopy, gamma–ray production, LHC storage rings, partially stripped ions, SPS storage rings",
author = "Dmitry Budker and {Crespo L{\'o}pez-Urrutia}, {Jos{\'e} R.} and Andrei Derevianko and Flambaum, {Victor V.} and Krasny, {Mieczyslaw Witold} and Alexey Petrenko and Szymon Pustelny and Andrey Surzhykov and Yerokhin, {Vladimir A.} and Max Zolotorev",
note = "Funding information: The authors are grateful for helpful discussions with and suggestions by Julian Berengut, Savas Dimopoulos, Alejandro Garcia, Felix Karbstein, Olga Kocharovskaya, Nancy Paul, J{\"o}rg Pretz, Fritz Riehle, Ferdinand Schmidt?Kaler, Yannis Semertzidis, Valeriy G. Serbo, Vladimir Shabaev, Thomas St{\"o}hlker, and Bogdan Wojtsekhowski. This work was supported in part by the DFG Projects SU 658/4?1 and ID 390831469: EXC 2118 (PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence), by the US National Science Foundation (award No. 1912465), and by the Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics “BASIS.”",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1002/andp.202000204",
language = "English",
volume = "532",
journal = "Annalen der Physik",
issn = "0003-3804",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "8",
}