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The Mott scattering of high-energetic twisted electrons by atoms is investigated within the framework of the first Born approximation and Dirac's relativistic equation. Special emphasis is placed on the angular distribution and longitudinal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 V. Serbo , I. P. Ivanov , S. Fritzsche , D. Seipt , A. Surzhykov

Polarization measurements in X-rays can provide unique opportunity to study the behavior of matter and radiation under extreme magnetic fields and extreme gravitational fields. Unfortunately, over past two decades, when X-ray astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-03 S. V. Vadawale , B. Paul , J. Pendharkar , Sachindra Naik

We present the results of a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code that calculates the polarization produced by multiple Thomson scattering and variable absorptive opacity in a circumstellar disk around one component of a close detached binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jennifer L. Hoffman , Barbara A. Whitney , Kenneth H. Nordsieck

A new technique based on superposition of two speckle patterns is proposed and demonstrated for controlled modulation of the spatial polarization distribution of the resultant speckle. It is demonstrated both theoretically and…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-15 Abhijit Roy , Rakesh K. Singh , Maruthi M. Brundavanam

Increasing peak brightness is beneficial to various applications of Thomson scattering x-ray source. Higher peak brightness of scattered x-ray pulse demands shorter scattering electron beam realized by beam compression in electron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Ding Yun-Ze , Du Ying-Chao , Zhang Zhen , Huang Wen-Hui

High-energy vortex $\gamma$ photons have significant applications in many fields, however, their generation and angular momentum manipulation are still great challenges. Here, we first investigated the generation of vortex $\gamma$ photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-18 Jing-Jing Jiang , Kai-Hong Zhuang , Jia-Ding Chen , Jian-Xing Li , Yue-Yue Chen

This paper considers the problem of modeling the light polarization that emerges from an astrophysical plasma composed of atoms whose excitation state is significantly influenced by the anisotropy of the incident radiation field. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-03 Javier Trujillo Bueno

We experimentally demonstrate optical control of filamentation that occurs during propagation of intense, ultrashort laser pulses through crystals like barium fluoride and sapphire. Control is exercised by rotating the plane of polarization…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Dharmadhikari , K. Alti , J. A. Dharmadhikari , D. Mathur

Hypothetical oscillations of probe photons into axion-like particles might be revealed by exploiting the strong fields of high-intensity laser pulses. Considering an arbitrary plane-wave background, we determine the polarization tensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Tobias Podszus , Carsten Müller

X-ray radiation from neutron stars manifests itself in a variety of settings. Isolated pulsars, and magnetars both exhibit quasi-thermal persistent soft X-ray emission from their surfaces. Transient magnetospheric bursts from magnetars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Matthew G. Baring , Kun Hu , Hoa Dinh Thi

The polarization of X-ray emission is a unique tool used to investigate the magnetic field structure around astrophysical objects. In this paper, we study the linear polarization of X-ray emissions from gamma-ray binary systems based on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Xingxing Hu , Jumpei Takata

X-ray polarimetry is a fine tool to probe the accretion geometry and physical processes operating in the proximity of compact objects, black holes and neutron stars. Recent discoveries made by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer put our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Anagha P. Nitindala , Alexandra Veledina , Juri Poutanen

Synchrotron radiation facilities provide highly polarized X-ray beams across a wide energy range. However, the exact type and degree of polarization varies according to the beamline and experimental setup. To accurately determine the angle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-31 L. Manzanillas , J. M. Ablett , M. Choukroun , F. J. Iguaz , J. P. Rueff

Betatron x-ray source from laser plasma interaction combines high brightness, few femtosecond duration and broad band energy spectrum. However, despite these unique features the Betatron source has a crippling drawback preventing its use…

We present a theoretical study of Compton scattering of X- and $\gamma$-rays by a $K$-shell electron. Special attention is paid to the double-differential cross section and polarization of the scattered photons for linearly polarized…

The polarisation of x-ray photons can be determined by measuring the direction of emission of a K-shell photoelectron. Effective exploitation of this effect below 10 keV would allow development of a highly sensitive x-ray polarimeter…

The polarization of gamma ray emission scattered off the baryon rich material that collimates a GRB fireball and the coasting speed of the irradiated matter are calculated numerically for different geometries of the radiation source and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Amir Levinson , David Eichler

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

We theoretically study the influence of laser polarization in inelastic scattering of electrons by hydrogen atoms in the presence of a circularly polarized laser field in the domain of field strengths below $10^{7}$ V/cm and high projectile…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Gabriela Buică

Polarization is a powerful diagnostic tool to constrain the site of the high-energy pulsed emission and particle acceleration in gamma-ray pulsars. Recent particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetosphere suggest that high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Benoît Cerutti , Jérémy Mortier , Alexander A. Philippov