Photon Collider Physics with Real Photon Beams

Gronberg, J ; Asztalos, S

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Charged Particles;    Photons;    Energy Range;    43 Particle Accelerators;    Elementary Particles;   

DOI  :  10.2172/875945
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-216837
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  875945

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Photon-photon interactions have been an important probe into fundamental particle physics. Until recently, the only way to produce photon-photon collisions was parasitically in the collision of charged particles. Recent advances in short-pulse laser technology have made it possible to consider producing high intensity, tightly focused beams of real photons through Compton scattering. A linear e{sup +}e{sup -} collider could thus be transformed into a photon-photon collider with the addition of high power lasers. In this paper they show that it is possible to make a competitive photon-photon collider experiment using the currently mothballed Stanford Linear Collider. This would produce photon-photon collisions in the GeV energy range which would allow the discovery and study of exotic heavy mesons with spin states of zero and two.