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Electron (positron) beam polarization by Compton scattering on circularly polarized laser photons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment Accelerator Physics

Abstract

In a number of papers an attractive method of laser polarization of electrons (positrons) at storage rings or linear colliders has been proposed. We show that these suggestions are incorrect and based on errors in simulation of multiple Compton scattering and in calculation of the Compton spin-flip cross sections. We argue that the equilibrium polarization in this method is zero.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0205139,
  title  = {Electron (positron) beam polarization by Compton scattering on circularly polarized laser photons},
  author = {G. L. Kotkin and V. G. Serbo and V. I. Telnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0205139},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, LaTeX, talk at 9-th Intern. Workshop on Linear Colliders (LC02), Feb. 4-8, 2002, SLAC, Stanford, USA