TRILLION · Steering and radiation effects in oriented crystals and their applications implementation into Geant4
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-09-02 → 2025-01-30
- EU contribution
- €249,465
- Participants
- 3
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Steering and radiation effects in oriented crystals and their applications implementation into Geant4
Crystals provide unique physical conditions for various electromagnetic 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 source of positrons, 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 particular, this will help to construct the future lepton colliders – multi-billion euro discovery machines opening new horizons in investigation of the fundamental laws of the Universe. It will provide a simple, low-cost and efficient tool of beam manipulation at tens of existing electron synchrotrons, which will considerably speed-up generic detectors R&D and will make available novel very high-energy fixed target experiments at future collider machines as well. In addition, the crystal X- and gamma- radiation source opens up the new perspectives in nuclear spectroscopy, nuclear transmutation and cancer radiation therapy. The only way to design any application of a crystal is to perform complicated simulations usually requiring High Performance Computing on a supercomputer. The bottleneck is unification of rather marginal crystalline effects simulation codes with big physics packages such as Geant4 widely used for experimental setup design. The implementation of both physics of electromagnetic processes in oriented crystals and the design of specific applications of crystalline effects into Geant4 simulation toolkit as Geant4 examples to bring them to a large scientific and industrial community and under a free Geant4 license is the main objective of this Project. As the main results, this physics was officially implemented into Geant4 within Geant4 Channeling Fast Simulation Model (G4ChannelingFastSimModel).
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Project objective
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.The implementation of both physics of electromagnetic processes in oriented crystals and the design of specific applications of crystalline effects into Geant4 simulation toolkit as Extended Examples to bring them to a large scientific and industrial community and under a free Geant4 license is the main goal of the project.The implementation of the following innovative applications into Geant4 will be mainly 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.3. Crystal-based hybrid positron source for both linear and circular e+e- colliders (ILC, FCC-ee) as well as for muon colliders.The outgoing research phase of this MSCA-GF project at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information as well as training at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and University of Science and Technology and participation in high-tech Daedeok Innopolis exhibitions will bring the ER to a considerably higher level of competence. During the incoming phase at INFN Division of Ferrara supplemented by the secondments to DESY and IJClab the ER will finally reach his professional maturity and independence as well as will acquire a lot of new ideas to submit them as ERC proposals or to create high-tech startups and a lot of professional contacts to realize them.
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Participants
- ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE · FrascatiCoordinatorItaly
- BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY · STANFORDUnited States
- KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION · DAEJEONSouth Korea
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