Gamma Factory for CERN initiative - progress report

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 . 1–400MeV) 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.

Stefano Redaelli | Simon Rochester | Reyes Alemany Fernandez | Marco Zanetti | Frank Zimmermann | Django Manglunki | Luca Serafini | Wieslaw Placzek | Kevin Cassou | Andrey Surzhykov | Mariusz Sapinski | Kevin Dupraz | Yann Peinaud | Patrick Czodrowski | Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny | Brennan Goddard | Dmitry Budker | Ying Wu | James Molson | Mike Lamont | Francesco Maria Velotti | L. J. Nevay | Hannes Bartosik | Jacek Bieron | Magdalena Kowalska | Nicolo Biancacci | Andrey Abramov | Gunter Weber | Stephen Gibson | R. A. Fernandez | Roberto Kersevan | Richard Scrivens | Andrei Derevianko | Alex Bogacz | Max Zolotorev | Michaela Schaumann | Fabian Zomer | Felix Kroeger | Yann Dutheil | Siobhan Alden | Pavel Antsiferov | Armen Apyan | Evgeny Bessonov | A. Bosco | Roderik Bruce | Fabrizio Castelli | Iryna Chaikovska | Camilla Curatolo | Krzystof Dzierzega | Valentine Fedosseev | Nuria Fuster Martinez | Arkadiusz Gorzawski | Simon Hirlander | John Jowett | Detlef Kuchler | Thibaut Lefevre | Bruce Marsh | Aurelien Martens | Daniele Naturelli | Alexey Petrenko | Vitoria Petrillo | Szymon Putelny | Viacheslav Shevelko | Thomas Stoehlker | Inga Tolstikhina | Christina Yin Vallgren | B. Goddard | D. Budker | P. Czodrowski | S. Gibson | M. Krasny | M. Zanetti | R. Bruce | S. Redaelli | A. Bosco | F. Zomer | F. Zimmermann | M. Kowalska | B. Marsh | I. Chaikovska | L. Serafini | Ying K. Wu | M. Sapinski | F. Castelli | J. Jowett | A. Martens | V. Fedosseev | T. Lefevre | L. Nevay | J. Molson | A. Abramov | R. Kersevan | W. Placzek | M. Schaumann | A. Apyan | M. Lamont | S. Rochester | N. Martinez | M. Zolotorev | A. Surzhykov | H. Bartosik | K. Cassou | F. Velotti | E. Bessonov | A. Derevianko | T. Stoehlker | J. Bieroń | A. Bogacz | D. Kuchler | C. Curatolo | K. Dupraz | A. Gorzawski | F. Kroeger | R. Scrivens | I. Tolstikhina | S. Hirlander | Y. Peinaud | N. Biancacci | G. Weber | Y. Dutheil | C. Vallgren | A. Petrenko | D. Manglunki | P. Antsiferov | S. Alden | K. Dzierżęga | Daniele Naturelli | V. Petrillo | Szymon Putelny | V. Shevelko

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