Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IRIDE: Interdisciplinary research infrastructure based on dual electron linacs and lasers
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The IRIDE concept: technological breakthroughs as a basis for new research in fundamental and applied science
The proposed IRIDE infrastructure will enable new, very promising synergies between fundamental-physics-oriented research and high-social-impact applications. Conceived as an innovative and evolutionary tool for multi-disciplinary investigations in a wide field of scientific, technological and industrial applications, it will be a high intensity “particles factory”, based on a combination of a high duty cycle radio-frequency superconducting electron linac and of high energy lasers. It will be
IRIDE layout: staging and upgrade potentials
The backbone of the IRIDE facility is a double superconducting high duty cycle electron linear accelerator, with the required 15 kW at 2 K cryogenic plant, based on the L-band standing wave RF (1.3 GHz) cavities developed by the TESLA collaboration, which currently drive the FLASH FEL facility in DESY and which, with minimal improvements of the cryo-module cooling system, could be upgraded to CW or qCW operation, see Table 1. Both pulsed and CW options rely on existing technology, available on the
Science with photons: new insights into the facets of nature and life.
The FEL at the IRIDE facility is a source of coherent X-rays, up to 0.2 nm at fundamental wavelength, depending on the electron beam energy. In some way it covers a radiation region complementary to those of other existing (see for example [17]) or in construction facilities, and will be provided also with an ancillary equipment to produce radiation in to the infrared and THz region [18]. The IRIDE FEL has a wide wavelengths overlap to satisfy users in many different fields of science and to
Science with γ-rays: a deep view of exotic nuclear structures
Radiation at short wavelength as γ-rays is used to excite the Nuclear Resonant Fluorescence (NRF), so that different nuclei can be identified by the distinct pattern of NRF emission peaks. In nuclear physics, there is large interest at present for the neutron-rich systems. On the one hand, existing and planned radioactive beams facilities aim to locate the position of the neutron and proton drip-lines (i.e. the limits defining whether a nuclear system is bound), and to study the properties of
Science with neutrons: from fundamental physics to industrial applications
Neutrons represent a unique probe for studying matter on the molecular scale, thus opening a wide range of applications: from material science to life science, from engineering and industrial applications to fundamental physics experiments. They cannot compete with electromagnetic radiation in intensity, but they are complementary with it because they penetrate substances that block the electromagnetic radiation (like metals) and are stopped by long radiation length materials, in particular
Particle physics opportunities: assembling the Standard Model puzzles
Recently the experimental results from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have provided us with very important information on the mass of the Standard Model higgs-like particle. However, the existence of this particle with a given mass does not solve, by itself, all the long-standing puzzles of the SM, such as a problem of the SM hierarchy, the naturalness of the higgs boson and the electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking. Even though all the SM parameters are now measured to a high accuracy, the
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