Production of gamma rays by pulsed laser beam Compton scattering off GeV-electrons using a non-planar four-mirror optical cavity
/ Authors
T. Akagi, S. Araki, J. Bonis, I. Chaikovska, R. Chiche, R. Cizeron, M. Cohen, É. Cormier, P. Cornebise, N. Delerue
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R. Flaminio, S. Funahashi, D. Jehanno, Y. Honda, F. Labaye, M. Lacroix, R. Marie, C. Michel, S. Miyoshi, S. Nagata, T. Omori, Y. Peinaud, L. Pinard, H. Shimizu, V. Soskov, Tohru Takahashi, R. Tanaka, T. Terunuma, J. Urakawa, A. Variola, F. Zomer
/ Abstract
As part of the positron source R&D for future e+−e− colliders and Compton based compact light sources, a high finesse non-planar four-mirror Fabry-Perot cavity has recently been installed at the ATF (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan) [1]. The first measurements of the gamma ray flux produced with a such cavity using a pulsed laser is presented here. We demonstrate the production of a flux of 2.7 ± 0.2 gamma rays per bunch crossing ( ~ 3 × 106 gammas per second) during the commissioning.
Journal: Journal of Instrumentation