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A detailed analysis of the process of two photon emission by an electron scattered from a high-intensity laser pulse is presented. The calculations are performed in the framework of strong-field QED and include exactly the presence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-13 F. Mackenroth , A. Di Piazza

High-brilliance high-polarization $\gamma$ rays based on Compton scattering are of great significance in broad areas, such as nuclear, high-energy, astro-physics, etc. However, the transfer mechanism of spin angular momentum in the…

Impacts of spin-polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with a strong laser pulse on emitted photon spectra and electron dynamics have been investigated in the quantum radiation regime. We simulate photon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Yan-Fei Li , Ren-Tong Guo , Rashid Shaisultanov , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Jian-Xing Li

We investigate the nonlinear Compton photon source for upcoming laser-particle experiments in the collision scenario of high-energy electron beams and relativistic laser pulses. The stronger laser field could not only improve the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Yu Xin , Zu-dong Zhao , Suo Tang

Inverse Compton scattering of an ultra-relativistic electron in the field of a high-intensity laser produces photon beams with angular and spectral distributions that are strongly dependent on the laser intensity. Here, we show that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 K. Fleck , T. Blackburn , E. Gerstmayr , M. Bruschi , P. Grutta , M. Morandin , G. Sarri

The collision of ultra-relativistic electron beams with intense short laser pulses makes possible to study QED in the high-intensity regime. Present day high-intensity lasers mostly operate with short pulse durations of several tens of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-16 Daniel Seipt

We propose a feasible scenario to directly polarize a relativistic electron beam and obtain overall polarization in various directions through a filter mechanism for single-shot collision between an ultrarelativistic unpolarized electron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Yuhui Tang , Qianyi Ma , Jinqing Yu , Yinren Shou , Xuezhi Wu , Xueqing Yan

Thomson scattering of laser light is one of the most fundamental diagnostics of plasma density, temperature and magnetic fields. It relies on the assumption that the properties in the probed volume are homogeneous and constant during the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 P. M. Kozlowski , B. J. B. Crowley , D. O. Gericke , S. P. Regan , G. Gregori

The traditional Thomson scattering diagnostic is based on measurement of the wavelength spectrum of scattered light, where electron temperature measurements are inferred from thermal broadening of the scattered laser light. At sufficiently…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Parke , V. V. Mirnov , D. J. Den Hartog

The generalized Klein-Nishina formula for Compton scattering of charged particles by a finite train of pulses is derived in the framework of quantum electrodynamics. The formula also applies to classical Thomson scattering provided that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 K. Krajewska , F. Cajiao Vélez , J. Z. Kamiński

If an electric charge is accelerated by a sufficiently intense electromagnetic field, the effects of the radiation emitted by the charge on the charge dynamics (radiation reaction) cannot be ignored. Here we show that classical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 A. Di Piazza

We investigate the phenomenology of nonlinear Compton scattering of polarised photons by unpolarised electrons in plane-wave backgrounds. The energy and angular spectra of polarised photons are calculated for linearly- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 B. King , S. Tang

An ultrarelativistic electron beam passing through an intense laser pulse emits radiation around its direction of propagation into a characteristic angular profile. Here we show that measurement of the variances of this profile in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 T. G. Blackburn , E. Gerstmayr , S. P. D. Mangles , M. Marklund

The feasibility of generation of bright ultrashort gamma-ray pulses is demonstrated in the interaction of a relativistic electron bunch with a counterpropagating tightly-focused superstrong laser beam in the radiation dominated regime. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Jian-Xing Li , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Benjamin J. Galow , Christoph H. Keitel

Thomson scattering of intense laser pulses from relativistic electrons allows us to generate high-brightness and tunable-polarization X/{\gamma}-ray pulses. This paper demonstrates the polarization control of the Thomson scattering source…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Hongze Zhang , Yingchao Du , Chuanxiang Tang , Lixin Yan , Wenhui Huang

We consider the Thomson scattering of an electron in an ultra-intense chirped laser pulse. It is found that the introduction of a negative chirp means the electron enters a high frequency region of the field while it still has a large…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Amol R. Holkundkar , Chris Harvey , Mattias Marklund

The total number of electrons in a classical microplasma can be non-intrusively measured through elastic in-phase coherent microwave scattering (CMS). Here, we establish a theoretical basis for the CMS diagnostic technique with an emphasis…

The recoil associated with photon emission is key to the dynamics of ultrarelativistic electrons in strong electromagnetic fields, as are found in high-intensity laser-matter interactions and astrophysical environments such as neutron star…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 T. G. Blackburn , D. Seipt , S. S. Bulanov , M. Marklund

Thomson scattering in non-ideal (collision-dominated) two-component plasmas is calculated accounting for electron-ion collisions as well as electron-electron correlations. This is achieved by using a novel interpolation scheme for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Carsten Fortmann , August Wierling , Gerd Röpke

The laser of an intense electromagnetic field provides an important tool to study the strong-field particle physics. The nonlinear Compton scattering was observed in the collision of an ultra-relativistic electron beam with a laser pulse in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-07 Kai Ma , Tong Li