SPring-8 LEPS2 beamline: A facility to produce a multi-GeV photon beam via laser Compton scattering

  • N. Muramatsu*
  • , M. Yosoi
  • , T. Yorita
  • , Y. Ohashi
  • , J. K. Ahn
  • , S. Ajimura
  • , Y. Asano
  • , W. C. Chang
  • , J. Y. Chen
  • , S. Daté
  • , T. Gogami
  • , H. Hamano
  • , T. Hashimoto
  • , T. Hiraiwa
  • , T. Hotta
  • , T. Ishikawa
  • , Y. Kasamatsu
  • , H. Katsuragawa
  • , R. Kobayakawa
  • , H. Kohri
  • S. Masumoto, Y. Matsumura, M. Miyabe, K. Mizutani, Y. Morino, T. Nakano, T. Nam, M. Niiyama, Y. Nozawa, H. Ohkuma, H. Ohnishi, T. Ohta, M. Oishi, K. Ozawa, S. Y. Ryu, Y. Sada, H. Saito, T. Shibukawa, H. Shimizu, R. Shirai, M. Shoji, M. Sumihama, S. Suzuki, S. Tanaka, Y. Taniuchi, A. O. Tokiyasu, N. Tomida, Y. Tsuchikawa, K. Watanabe, C. J. Yoon, C. Yoshida
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We have constructed a new laser-Compton-scattering facility, called the LEPS2 beamline, at the 8 GeV electron storage ring, SPring-8. This facility provides a linearly polarized photon beam in a tagged energy range of 1.3–2.4 GeV. Thanks to a small divergence of the low-emittance storage-ring electrons, the tagged photon beam has a size (σ) suppressed to about 4 mm even after it travels about 130 m to the experimental building that is independent of the storage ring building and contains large detector systems. This beamline is designed to achieve a photon beam intensity higher than that of the first laser-Compton-scattering beamline at SPring-8 by adopting the simultaneous injection of up to four high-power laser beams and increasing a transmittance for the long photon-beam path up to about 77%. The new beamline is under operation for hadron photoproduction experiments.

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Keywords

  • Hadron photoproduction
  • High energy photon beams
  • Laser Compton scattering
  • Linear polarization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Instrumentation

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