Performance of high intensity γ-rays source driven by the Duke storage ring FEL

Author

Litvineko, V.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Duke Univ., Durham, NC

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

657

Abstract

In this paper we report the status of the High Intensity γ-ray Source facility (HIγS) based on intra-cavity Compton back-scattering inside the OK-4/Duke storage ring FEL (SR FEL). The HIγS is generating beams of γ-rays with tuneable energy from 1.8 MeV to 58 MeV and total average flux up to 510⁸ γ-rays per second. The γ-ray beam is mono-chromatized by on-axis collimator to energy spread as low as 0.2% RMS. The HIγS facility generated in excess of 2,000 hours of the γ-ray beam time for nuclear physics user program. We discuss the incoming up-grades of the facility in next five years including the installation of the OK-5 FEL with controllable polarisation and the full-energy booster-injector

Keywords

Compton effect; backscatter; booster injectors; electron accelerators; free electron lasers; gamma-ray production; particle beam injection; storage rings; 1.8 to 58 MeV; 2000 hour; Duke storage ring FEL; HIγS; High Intensity γ-ray Source facility; controllable polarisation; full-energy booster-injector; high intensity γ-rays source performance; intracavity Compton backscattering; Electron beams; Electron optics; Energy resolution; Hip; Laser beams; Nuclear power generation; Optical beams; Optical collimators; Particle beams; Storage rings;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.987597

Filename

987597