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Gamma Factory: A New Experimental Paradigm for CERN's HL-LHC--FCC-ee Transition
Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny
The Gamma Factory (GF) proposal \cite{Krasny:2015ffb} is motivated by the recognition of a largely untapped potential of the CERN accelerator complex to enable a new research progr…
Summary Report of the Physics Beyond Colliders Study at CERN
R. Alemany Fernández, M. Au, G. Arduini +80
The Physics Beyond Collider (PBC) Study Group was initially mandated by the CERN Management to prepare the previous European Particle Physics Strategy Update for CERN projects othe…
Resonant photon scattering in the presence of external fields and its applications for the Gamma Factory
Jan Richter, Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Jan Gilles +1
This theoretical study explores resonant elastic photon scattering in the presence of external electric and magnetic fields, motivated by potential applications in storage ring exp…
Efficient transmutation of long-lived fission products in a Gamma Factory beam driven advanced nuclear energy system
Hu Baolong, Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Wieslaw Placzek +4
The Gamma Factory (GF) project aims to generate high-intensity -ray beams of tunable energy and relatively small energy spread. Such beams can be optimized to generate an intens…
Gamma Factory high-intensity muon and positron source: Exploratory studies
Armen Apyan, Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Wiesław Płaczek
One of the fundamental challenges for future leptonic colliders and neutrino factories as well as for high-sensitivity studies of lepton universality is to design and construct new…
Expanding Nuclear Physics Horizons with the Gamma Factory
Dmitry Budker, Julian C. Berengut, Victor V. Flambaum +13
The Gamma Factory (GF) is an ambitious proposal, currently explored within the CERN Physics Beyond Colliders program, for a source of photons with energies up to MeV…
Optical excitation of ultra-relativistic partially stripped ions
J. Bieroń, M. W. Krasny, W. Płaczek +1
The Gamma Factory (GF) initiative aims at the construction of a unique experimental tool exploiting resonant interaction of light with ultra-relativistic partially stripped ions (P…
Probing ALPs at the CERN Gamma Factory
Reuven Balkin, Mieczyslaw W. Krasny, Teng Ma +2
The aim of the proposed CERN Gamma Factory is to produce photons per second with energies up to 400 MeV. The photon beam intensity is expected to be a factor of $\ma…
Charge-state distributions of highly charged lead ions at relativistic collision energies
F. M. Kröger, G. Weber, S. Hirlaender +5
Presented is a study of the charge-state evolution of relativistic lead ions passing through a thin aluminum stripper foil. It was motivated by the Gamma Factory project at CERN, w…
Radioactive ion beam production at the Gamma Factory
Dragos Nichita, Dimiter Balabanski, Paul Constantin +2
A very intense gamma beam of the Gamma Factory facility proposed at CERN can be used to generate radioactive ion beams (RIBs) with high production yields and study the structure of…
Collimation of partially stripped ions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Arkadiusz Gorzawski, Andrey Abramov, Roderik Bruce +5
In the scope of the Physics Beyond Colliders studies, the Gamma-Factory initiative proposes the use of partially stripped ions as a driver of a new type of high-intensity photon so…
Measurement and application of electron stripping of ultrarelativistic
D. A. Cooke, J. Bauche, M. Cascella +13
New measurements of the stripping cross-section for ultrarelativistic hydrogen-like lead ions passing through aluminium and silicon have been performed at the Advanced Wakefield ex…
Atomic physics studies at the Gamma Factory at CERN
Dmitry Budker, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia, Andrei Derevianko +7
The Gamma Factory initiative proposes to develop novel research tools at CERN by producing, accelerating and storing highly relativistic, partially stripped ion beams in the SPS an…
High-luminosity Large Hadron Collider with laser-cooled isoscalar ion beams
Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Alexey Petrenko, Wieslaw Placzek
This paper presents one of the case studies of the Gamma Factory initiative -- a proposal of a new operation scheme of ion beams in the CERN accelerator complex. Its goal is to ext…
Gamma Factory at CERN -- novel research tools made of light
W. Placzek, A. Abramov, S. E. Alden +59
We discuss the possibility of creating novel research tools by producing and storing highly relativistic beams of highly ionised atoms in the CERN accelerator complex, and by excit…
PHOTON-2017 conference proceedings
David d'Enterria, Albert de Roeck, Michelangelo Mangano +77
This document collects the proceedings of the PHOTON 2017 conference ("International Conference on the Structure and the Interactions of the Photon", including the 22th "Internatio…
QED radiative corrections and their impact on H -> tau tau searches at the LHC
Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Stanislaw Jadach, Wieslaw Placzek
In this paper we show that the excess of the tau tau events with respect to the Standard Model background predictions, observed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations and interpreted…
The Gamma Factory proposal for CERN
Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny
This year, 2015, marks the centenary of the publication of Einsteins Theory of General Relativity and it has been named the International Year of Light and light-based technologies…
On the contribution of the double Drell-Yan process to WW and ZZ production at the LHC
Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Wieslaw Placzek
In this paper we investigate consequences of an assumption that the discrepancy of the predicted and observed W+W- production cross sections at the LHC is caused by the missing con…
Background to Higgs-boson searches from internal conversions of off-shell photons associated with -boson production at the LHC
Anatoli Fedynitch, Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Wiesław Płaczek
This paper presents the studies of the background contribution to the searches originating from the processes of off-shell (virtual) photon emissions and their c…
Challenges for precision measurements at the LHC
M. W. Krasny
Challenges for precision measurements at the LHC are discussed and a proposal how to move forward to overcome the LHC-specific precision brick-walls is presented.
The LHC excess of four-lepton events interpreted as Higgs-boson signal: background from Double Drell--Yan process?
Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Wieslaw Placzek
We construct a simple model of the Double Drell--Yan Process (DDYP) for proton--proton collisions and investigate its possible contribution to the background for the Higgs-boson se…
Luminosity Measurement Method for the LHC: Event Selection and Absolute Luminosity Determination
M. W. Krasny, J. Chwastowski, A. Cyz +1
Absolute normalisation of the LHC measurements with O(1%) precision and their relative normalisation, for the data collected at variable centre-of-mass energies, or for variable be…
Search for new phenomena in final states with large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum using sqrt(s)=7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
Results are presented of a search for any particle(s) decaying to six or more jets in association with missing transverse momentum. The search is performed using 1.34 fb^-1 of sqrt…