Speaker
Klaus Dehmelt
(Stony Brook University)
Description
Artificially structured materials, also called meta-materials are composite media that can emerge with unusual electromagnetic properties. Owing to Transformation Optics (TO) a wide spectrum of electromagnetic devices with extraordinary pre-designed functions enters the stage. As the development of meta-materials progresses, many of novel electromagnetic devices designed with TO have been experimentally demonstrated and used in specific applications. As an example, a magnetic cloaking device has been developed and verified upon feasibility by our group. It might find deployment in shielding charged particle beams in HEP experiments.
Another application of interest might be the utilization of meta-materials in instrumentation that has a focus on detecting particles in HEP experiments. Manipulating optical properties of detector media offers the possibility to improve the ability, amongst others, to identify charged particles by means of the Cherenkov effect. One of the media's desired property is to anomalously and largely tune light scattering in an ultra-compact volume. As a consequence, small volumes might be exploited and relatively cheaply and with small efforts implemented. However, a variety of challenges have to be controlled and extensive R&D must be conducted to realize such implementation.
Primary author
Klaus Dehmelt
(Stony Brook University)
