New methods to achieve meson, muon and gamma light sources through asymmetric electron positron collisions

TL;DR

This paper introduces novel methods for generating energetic meson, muon, and gamma light sources via asymmetric electron-positron collisions, enabling high-rate, collimated beams for advanced physics research.

Contribution

It proposes practical asymmetric collision techniques at different energies to produce high-intensity meson beams with potential applications in particle physics.

Findings

Kaon production rate of 10^4-10^5 per second at 1020 MeV

TeV-scale positron on target experiments yield 10^7 Kaons per bunch

Methods are feasible with reasonable budget and extendable to other particles

Abstract

We propose methods to produce energetic meson beams such as charged and neutral Kaons, which are boosted to be collimated and with relatively long life time. The first type of methods is based on asymmetric electron positron collisions with a center of mass energy of, e.g., 1020 MeV, and Kaons can be produced at a rate of $10^{4-5}/s$. The electron and positron beams are either asymmetric in energy, e.g., 10 GeV electron beam with 26 MeV positron beam, or asymmetric in space, e.g., 10 GeV electron and positron beams collisions separated with a angle around 0.05 radius. Such proposals should be able to be achieved with a reasonable budget. The other type of method is relying on TeV positron on target experiment, where Kaon beams can be achieved at around $10^{7}$ per bunch crossing. Such Kaon beams are clean with small contamination, and can have great physics potential on, e.g., hyperon searches through Kaon nuclei collision, Kaon rare decay measurement, and Kaon proton or Kaon lepton collisions. The same technique with very asymmetric electron positron collisions can also be extended to other final states such as pions and tau leptons.