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The high density $\gamma$-ray emission and dense positron production via multi-lasers driven circular target

Plasma Physics 2019-09-04 v1

Abstract

A diamond-like carbon circular target is proposed to improve the γ\gamma-ray emission and pair production with lasers intensity of 8×1022 W/cm28\times 10^{22} ~\mathrm{W/cm^2} by using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations with quantum electrodynamics. It is found that the circular target can significantly enhance the density of γ\gamma-photons than plane target when two colliding circularly polarized lasers irradiate the target. By multi-lasers irradiate the circular target, the optical trap of lasers can prevent the high energy electrons accelerated by laser radiation pressure from escaping. Hence, high density as 5164nc5164 n_c γ\gamma-photons is obtained through nonlinear Compton back-scattering. Meanwhile, 2.7×10112.7 \times 10^{11} positrons with average energy of 230 MeV230 ~\mathrm{MeV} is achieved via multi-photon Breit-Wheeler process. Such ultrabright γ\gamma-ray source and dense positrons source can be useful to many applications. The optimal target radius and laser mismatching deviation parameters are also discussed in detail.

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@article{arxiv.1812.01294,
  title  = {The high density $\gamma$-ray emission and dense positron production via multi-lasers driven circular target},
  author = {Ya-Juan Hou and Bai-Song Xie and Chong Lv and Feng Wan and Li Wang and Nureli Yasen and Hai-Bo Sang and Guo-Xing Xia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01294},
  year   = {2019}
}

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16 pages, 8 figures