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The processes of lepton-nucleon scattering, including ones with both polarized beams, at high energy provide relevant information about interaction and particles structure, allowing to analyze nucleon spin structure. As energy and…

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A high quality beam of linearly polarized photons of several GeV will become available with the coherent bremsstrahlung technique at JLab. We have developed a polarimeter which requires about two meters of the beam line, has an analyzing…

We present an investigation into beam steering and radiation emission by sub-GeV electrons traversing bent silicon crystals. Using 855, 600, and 300~MeV electron beams at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI), we explored orientational coherent…

We report on a new technique to split an atomic beam coherently with an easily adjustable splitting angle. In our experiment metastable helium atoms in the |{1s2s}^3S_1 M=1> state diffract from a polarization gradient light field formed by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 K. F. E. M. Domen , M. A. H. M. Jansen , W. van Dijk , K. A. H. van Leeuwen

In scintillation detector, scintillation crystals are typically made into 2-dimension modular array. The location of incident gamma-ray need be calibrated due to spatial response nonlinearity. Generally, position histograms, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 Hai Peng Wang , Ming Kai Yun , Shuang Quan Liu , Xin Fan , Xue Xiang Cao , Pei Chai , Bao Ci Shan

The experimental method of the linearly polarized photons polarimetry,using incoherent e+e- pair production process has been investigated on the beam of coherent bremsstrahlung (CB) photons in the energy range of 0.9-1.1 GeV at the Yerevan…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Adamyan , A. Aganyants , H. Hakobyan , J. Manukyan , R. Oganezov , L. Sargsyan , A. Sirunyan , H. Vartapetian , R. Jones

The nucleosynthesis of heavy proton-rich nuclei in a stellar photon bath at temperatures of the astrophysical $\gamma$-process was investigated where the photon bath was simulated by the superposition of bremsstrahlung spectra with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Mohr , K. Vogt , M. Babilon , J. Enders , T. Hartmann , C. Hutter , T. Rauscher , S. Volz , A. Zilges

We present a simple novel scheme that converts a Gaussian beam into an approximated radially polarized beam using coherent polarization manipulation together with Poynting walk-off in birefringent crystals. Our scheme alleviates the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. B. Phua , W. J. Lai

Recent developments in bremsstrahlung from electrons colliding with atoms and nuclei at energies between 0.1 MeV and 500 MeV are reviewed. Considered are cross sections differential in the photon degrees of freedom, including coincidence…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 D. H. Jakubassa-Amundsen

The research investigates coherent interactions between sub-GeV electrons and oriented scintillator crystals, leading to enhanced electromagnetic (EM) radiation. Experiments at Mainz Mikrotron (MAMI) involved PWO, BGO, and CsI crystals…

Quasisymmetry can greatly improve the confinement of energetic particles and thermal plasma in a stellarator. The magnetic field of a quasisymmetric stellarator at high plasma pressure is significantly affected by the bootstrap current, but…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Matt Landreman , Stefan Buller , Michael Drevlak

An atom interferometer based on a Stern-Gerlach beam splitter is proposed. Atom scattering from a combination of magnetic quadrupole and homogeneous magnetic fields is considered. Using Raman transitions, atoms are coherently excited into…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Dubetsky , G. Raithel

Steering of negatively charged particle beams below 1 GeV has demonstrated to be possible with thin bent silicon and germanium crystals. A newly designed mechanical holder was used for bending crystals, since it allows a remotely-controlled…

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Coherent electron cooling is a promising technique to cool high-intensity hadron bunches by imprinting the noise in the hadron beam on a beam of electrons, amplifying the electron density modulations, and using them to apply cooling kicks…

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Nematic liquid-crystal devices are a powerful tool to structure light in different degrees of freedom, both in classical and quantum regimes. Most of these devices exploit either the possibility of introducing a position-dependent phase…

A novel polarimeter based on the asymmetry in the spacial distribution of synchrotron radiation will make for a fine addition to the existing M{\o}ller and Compton polarimeters. The spin light polarimeter consists of a set of wiggler magnet…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Prajwal Mohanmurthy , Dipangkar Dutta

Mono-layers of stearic and behenic acids deposited with the Langmuir-Blodgett technique, were used as aligning films in nematic liquid crystal cells. During the filling process the liquid crystal adopts a deformed quasi-planar alignment…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 V. S. U. Fazio , L. Komitov , S. T. Lagerwall

We report the results of a combined study of particle-in-cell and Monte Carlo modeling that investigates the production of Bremsstrahlung radiation produced when an ultraintense laser interacts with a tower-structured target. These targets…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Jiang , A. G. Krygier , D. W. Schumacher , K. U. Akli , R. R. Freeman

Solid-state single-photon emitters are attractive for realization of integrated quantum systems due to their experimental convenience and scalability. Unfortunately, however, their complex mesoscopic environments cause photons from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Smarak Maity , Linbo Shao , Young-Ik Sohn , Srujan Meesala , Bartholomeus Machielse , Edward Bielejec , Matthew Markham , Marko Loncar

We estimate the dipole radiation emitted in fusion processes. We show that a classical bremsstrahlung approach can account for both the preequilibrium and the thermal photon emission. We give an absolute evaluation of the pre-equilibrium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Baran , D. M. Brink , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro