Affiliation:
1. Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Mihogaoka 10-1 Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
Abstract
Recent developments of the synchroton radiation facilities and intense lasers are now guiding us to a new research frontier with probes of a high energy GeV photon beam and an intense and short pulse MeV γ-ray beam. New directions of the science developments with photo-nuclear reactions are discussed. The inverse Compton γ -ray has two good advantages for searching for a microscopic quantum world; they are 1) good emmitance and 2) high linear and circular polarizations. With these advantages, photon beams in the energy range from MeV to GeV are used for studying hadron structure, nuclear structure, astrophysics, materials science, as well as for applying medical science.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,Nuclear and High Energy Physics