Brookhaven medium-energy gamma-ray project

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6535347

Sandorfi, A M; LeVine, M J; Thorn, C E; Giordano, G; Matone, G

Within the next year we hope to begin the construction of a facility that would provide intense beams of monochromatic and polarized photons with energies in the range of several hundreds of MeV. These ..gamma.. rays will be produced by Compton backscattering laser light from the electrons circulating in the 2.5 to 3.0 GeV X-RAY storage ring of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Gamma rays up to 80 MeV in energy are produced by this mechanism at the LADON facility at Frascati. However, the techniques that will be used at Brookhaven to produce monoenergetic polarized ..gamma..-ray beams are fundamentally different than those employed at Frascati. In this paper we summarize the essential aspects and phases of development of the BNL facility.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati (Italy). Lab. Nazionale di Frascati
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6535347
• Report Number(s): BNL-32361; CONF-8210115-1; ON: DE83006275
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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