CLIC Drive Beam and LHC Based FEL-Nucleus Collider

Abstract

The feasibility of a CLIC-LHC based FEL-nucleus collider is investigated. It is shown that the proposed scheme satisfies all requirements of an ideal photon source for the Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence method. The physics potential of the proposed collider is illustrated for a beam of Pb nuclei.

Overview of CW electron guns and LCLS-II RF gun performance

“…X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) [1][2][3][4] have proven to be a revolutionary tool for scientific studies of material properties. However, existing XFEL facilities typically operate at repetition rates below a few hundred Hertz (Hz) due to power handling limitations of their normal-conducting guns and accelerator structures.…”

Multibunch Regime of Wakefield Excitation in a Plasma-Dielectric Structure

“…While tackling the general problems of high-energy physics, electron accelerators play an important role of an instrument, like a microscope, for studying the tiniest world of the nature, whose dimensions can be observed to a trillionth of a micron making use of modern colliders with an energy of 100 GeV in the center-of-mass system [1]. Today, we move forth into a new TeV-energy range [2,3], where we expect to obtain answers to profound fundamental issues concerning the mass origin, prevalence of the matter over the antimatter, existence of supersymmetry, and others. Accelerators of high-energy ions, including proton and heavy-ion colliders [4], can reveal the in situ synthesis of a nuclear matter by means of the quarkgluon plasma creation at a temperature of the quarkhadron phase transition equal to about one trillion Kelvins, which is assumed to be the high-density state of the Universe at a moment of 10 −5 s after the Big Bang.…”

“…Accelerators of high-energy ions, including proton and heavy-ion colliders [4], can reveal the in situ synthesis of a nuclear matter by means of the quarkgluon plasma creation at a temperature of the quarkhadron phase transition equal to about one trillion Kelvins, which is assumed to be the high-density state of the Universe at a moment of 10 −5 s after the Big Bang. However, accelerators like the International Linear (Lepton) Collider [2,3] and the Large Hadron Collider [4], on which traditional methods of particle acceleration are used, are very close to the limit of mankind's capability, even if the joint efforts would be applied [5]. The first recognition of the "end of the road" for traditional acceleration schemes was declared in work [6], where the ideas of new acceleration methods were proclaimed.…”