DESIGN OF A GAMMA-RAY SOURCE BASED ON INVERSE COMPTON SCATTERING AT THE FAST SUPERCONDUCTING LINAC

Conference · Mon Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:1329658

Mihalcea, D. ^[1]; Jacobson, B. ^[2]; Murokh, A. ^[3]; Piot, P. ^[3]; Ruan, J. ^[3]

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1. NICADD, DeKalb
2. RadiaBeam Tech.
3. Fermilab

A watt-level average-power gamma-ray source is currently under development at the Fermilab Accelerator Science & Technology (FAST) facility. The source is based on the Inverse Compton Scattering of a high-brightness 300-MeV beam against a high-power laser beam circulating in an optical cavity. The back scattered gamma rays are expected to have photon energies up to 1.5 MeV. This paper discusses the optimization of the source, its performances, and the main challenges ahead.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1329658
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-16-445-AD-APC; 1494004
• Resource Relation: Conference: 22nd International Symposium on Spin Physics, Urbana, IL, USA, 09/25-09/30/2016
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English