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Steering and radiation effects in oriented crystals and their applications implementation into Geant4

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Global Fellowships
GA 101032975

About

The project TRILLION is dedicated to the implementation of physics and specific applications of electromagnetic processes in oriented crystals and nanostructures into Geant4 simulation toolkit to bring them to a large scientific and industrial community and under a free Geant4 license.
 
Crystalline structure is a unique environment for strong-field QED effects involving both high-energy charged particles and photons. A small piece of crystal material could be used as an intense source of X- and gamma-ray radiation, a positron source, a beam manipulation instrument, a compact detector and a compact wake-field accelerator as well. Consequently, a crystal could be useful for a wide range of applications in accelerator physics, high-energy frontier physics, nuclear physics, cosmic-ray detectors, dark matter search and radiation therapy.

In this project the implementation of the following innovative applications into Geant4 will be focused on:

1. Crystalline deflector to extract a charged particle beam from an accelerator (electron synchrotron, hadron collider) to supply fixed-target experiments by an intense low-emittance beam.

2. Crystalline source of intense coherent hard X-ray and gamma radiation, crystalline undulator (CU). Crystalline undulator is considered as an essential step for gamma laser invention. Such radiation source may be applied in nuclear spectroscopy, nuclear transmutation and radiation therapy.

3. Crystal-based hybrid positron source for both linear and circular e+e- colliders (ILC, FCC-ee) as well as for muon colliders. An intense positron source becomes essential in future multi-billion euro collider projects.

Organizations involved

Beneficiary:

INFN Division of Ferrara

Partner Organization hosting the outgoing phase:

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information

High Energy Physics Group @ KISTI Supercomputing Center

Partner Organization hosting secondments:

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Partner Organization hosting secondments:

Irène-Joliot Curie Physics of Two Infinities Lab