TY - JOUR

T1 - A Project for a Compton Photon Source with an Energy up to 2500 MeV at the SKIF Synchrotron Radiation Facility

AU - Kaminskiy, V. V.

AU - Meshkov, O. I.

AU - Muchnoi, N. Yu

N1 - Funding Information: We thank A.I. Milstein and other employees of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Science, and V.G. Serbo (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Science), and V.G. Nedorezov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences) for helpful discussions. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.

PY - 2021/12

Y1 - 2021/12

N2 - In this paper, we describe the project of a photon source with energies up to 2500 MeV at the SKIF synchrotron radiation facility (under construction in Novosibirsk). It is intended for experiments on photonuclear reactions, nonlinear QED, EM detector calibration and other applications. A polarized photon beam with a flux of 106–108 Hz (in full spectrum) is produced using Compton backscattering (or inverse scattering) of IR, visible, and UV laser radiation, as well as the UV band of its own synchrotron radiation, on the SKIF electron beam (15 kHz). Spectrum monochromatization with collimators or/and tagging system by recoil electrons is possible. The discrepancy between experimental and theoretical photofission cross sections of actinide nuclei in a photon energy range of hundreds of MeV has been known since the 1980s, so it is proposed to study these cross sections in the first series of experiments.

AB - In this paper, we describe the project of a photon source with energies up to 2500 MeV at the SKIF synchrotron radiation facility (under construction in Novosibirsk). It is intended for experiments on photonuclear reactions, nonlinear QED, EM detector calibration and other applications. A polarized photon beam with a flux of 106–108 Hz (in full spectrum) is produced using Compton backscattering (or inverse scattering) of IR, visible, and UV laser radiation, as well as the UV band of its own synchrotron radiation, on the SKIF electron beam (15 kHz). Spectrum monochromatization with collimators or/and tagging system by recoil electrons is possible. The discrepancy between experimental and theoretical photofission cross sections of actinide nuclei in a photon energy range of hundreds of MeV has been known since the 1980s, so it is proposed to study these cross sections in the first series of experiments.

KW - Compton backscattering

KW - electron storage ring

KW - photonuclear reactions

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U2 - 10.1134/S1063778821100173

DO - 10.1134/S1063778821100173

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85125346141

VL - 84

SP - 1625

EP - 1631

JO - Physics of Atomic Nuclei

JF - Physics of Atomic Nuclei

SN - 1063-7788

IS - 9

ER -