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Generation of bright collimated vortex $\gamma$-ray via laser driven cone-fan target

Plasma Physics 2023-03-08 v1 Accelerator Physics

Abstract

We use numerical simulations to demonstrate that a source of bright collimated vortex γ\gamma-ray with large orbital angular momentum can be achieved by irradiating a circularly polarized laser with an intensity about 1022W/cm210^{22}\rm{W/{cm^2}} on a cone-fan target. In the studied setup, electron beam of energy of hundreds of MeV and vortex laser pulse are formed. And furthermore a high quality vortex γ\gamma-ray is yielded with small divergence of 55^{\circ} and high peak brilliance 5×1022\sim5\times10^{22} photons s1mm2mrad2{\rm\cdot s^{-1} \cdot mm^{-2} \cdot mrad^{-2}} 0.1%BW0.1\%\mathrm{BW} at 10MeV10\mathrm{MeV}. A considerable fraction of angular momentum of laser is converted to electron beam and vortex γ\gamma-ray, which are roughly 27.8%27.8\% and 3%3\%, respectively. And the conversion efficiency of energy from laser to electron beam and vortex γ\gamma-ray are around 41%41\% and 3.8%3.8\%. Moreover, comparative simulations for different right radius of cone reveal that there exists an optimal size that makes the highest angular momentum of γ\gamma-ray photons to be around 2.8×1062.8\times10^6\hbar. The comparative simulations for different laser modes exhibit that it is more appropriate to choose the circularly polarized laser to generate vortex γ\gamma-ray than the Laguerre-Gaussian one.

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@article{arxiv.2208.11918,
  title  = {Generation of bright collimated vortex $\gamma$-ray via laser driven cone-fan target},
  author = {Cui-Wen Zhang and Mamat-Ali Bake and Hong Xiao and Hai-Bo Sang and Bai-Song Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.11918},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages, 9 figures