Generation of bright collimated vortex $\gamma$-ray via laser driven cone-fan target
Abstract
We use numerical simulations to demonstrate that a source of bright collimated vortex -ray with large orbital angular momentum can be achieved by irradiating a circularly polarized laser with an intensity about 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 -ray is yielded with small divergence of and high peak brilliance photons at . A considerable fraction of angular momentum of laser is converted to electron beam and vortex -ray, which are roughly and , respectively. And the conversion efficiency of energy from laser to electron beam and vortex -ray are around and . Moreover, comparative simulations for different right radius of cone reveal that there exists an optimal size that makes the highest angular momentum of -ray photons to be around . The comparative simulations for different laser modes exhibit that it is more appropriate to choose the circularly polarized laser to generate vortex -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