Descrizione del progetto
Intense sorgenti luminose di raggi gamma basate su disposizioni di cristalli piegati
Il progetto TECHNO-CLS, finanziato dall’UE, intende produrre innovative sorgenti luminose di raggi gamma che operino a energie fotoniche comprese tra i 100 keV e l’intervallo GeV. Questa ricerca rivoluzionaria esaminerà i processi alla base dell’esposizione di cristalli orientati a fasci di elettroni e positroni a elevata energia su scala atomica. TECHNO-CLS sfrutterà il successo dei precedenti test condotti sull’idea dell’ondulatore cristallino, ossia un cristallo periodicamente piegato in cui elettroni o positroni incanalati seguono la curvatura del piano cristallino. Le sorgenti luminose basate su cristalli orientati di diverse geometrie potrebbero generare una radiazione intensa con lunghezze d’onda inferiori a 1 angstrom. Non è possibile ottenere una radiazione intensa a lunghezze d’onda inferiori a questa soglia con le attuali tecnologie basate sui campi magnetici.
Obiettivo
TECHNO-CLS project at the breakthrough in technologies needed for designing and practical realisation of novel gamma-ray Light Sources (LS) operating at photon energies from ~100 keV up to GeV range that can be constructed through exposure of oriented crystals (linear, bent and periodically bent) to the beams of ultrarelativistic charged particles. The TECHNO-CLS high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology breakthrough research programme will address the physics of the processes accompanying the oriented crystal exposure to irradiation by the high-energy electron and positron beams at the atomistic level of detail needed for the realisation of the TECHNO-CLS goals. A broad interdisciplinary, international collaboration has been created previously in the frame of FP7 and H2020 projects, which performed initial experimental tests to demonstrate the crystalline undulator (CU) idea, production and characterisation of periodically bent crystals and the related theory. TECHNO-CLS aims to build the high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology breakthrough research programme on these successful studies aiming at a practical realisation of the novel gamma-ray LSs such as CUs, crystalline synchrotron radiation emitters, and many others. Additionally, by means of a pre-bunched beam a CU LS has a potential to generate coherent superrradiant radiation with wavelengths orders of magnitudes less than 1 Angstrom, i.e. within the range that cannot be reached in existing LSs based on magnetic undulators. Such LSs will have many applications in the basic sciences including nuclear and solid-state physics and the life sciences. Theoretical, computational, experimental and technological results obtained in the course of this project will pave a way for key technological developments of the LSs and their wide exploitation. The TECHNO-CLS international collaboration possesses all the necessary expertise to conduct successfully the outlined programme.
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HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01
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61479 Glashuetten
Germania
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