Complete description of polarization effects in the nonlinear Compton scattering. I. Circularly polarized laser photons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. Polarization effects in this process are important for a number of physical problems. We discuss a probability of this process for circularly polarized laser photons and for arbitrary polarization of all other particles. We obtain the complete set of functions which describe such a probability in a compact covariant form. Besides, we discuss an application of the obtained formulas to the problem of electron -> photon conversion at photon-photon and photon-electron colliders.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0310325,
title = {Complete description of polarization effects in the nonlinear Compton scattering. I. Circularly polarized laser photons},
author = {D. Yu. Ivanov and G. L. Kotkin and V. G. Serbo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0310325},
year = {2007}
}
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14 pages, latex