Can ICAN can CERN into a can?: review study
2013
The development of RF particle accelerators was undoubtedly the great achievement of science and civilization which
allowed for unique observations being in line with the Standard Model theory. On the other hand, this technology
reached its limits of performance and building RF devices which would allow for obtaining significantly higher energy
is questionable from physical and economic point of view.
Due to this fact, a development of a different acceleration technique became of utmost importance. The candidate
method is Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWA). LWA may offer drastic reduction in the size of the accelerator;
however; it demands an enormous laser systems to provide both high power density and average power. Presently
operating laser systems offer sufficient power density but the crucial obstacle to overcome is the repetition rate which
circumscribes the average power and the number of the collision events.
To deal with this problem the ICAN (International Coherent Amplification Network) project has been proposed. It is
aimed on the construction of high power, high repetition rate fiber laser which would be efficient for LWA for the
particle accelerator and other applications including XFEL, transmutation, nuclear waste management and fundamental
plasma research. It is worth mentioning that all technologies needed for the development of such a device are presently
available just need to be upgraded and combined into one operating system.
This contribution is a review of the mechanisms of acceleration of charged particles, fiber and optical techniques which
will be employed in ICAN and its possible applications and perspectives.
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