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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

We show how the semiclassical formulas for radiation emission of Baier, Katkov and Strakhovenko for arbitrary initial and final spins of the electron and arbitrary polarization of the emitted photon can be rewritten in a form which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-11 T. N. Wistisen , A. Di Piazza

The use of an intense ultrashort laser pulse to induce electron polarization has been proposed in existing literature. The Python programming language is used to recreate the local constant crossed-field approximation (LCFA) with the aim of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Katherine D. Ranjbar , Emily Snyder , Alice Snyder , Vahid H. Ranjbar

Manipulating the spin polarization of electron beams using light is highly desirable but exceedingly challenging, as the approaches proposed in previous studies using free-space light usually require enormous laser intensities. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Deng Pan , Hongxing Xu

While spin polarization from synchrotron radiation is well established, the polarization of orbital angular momentum (OAM) in such radiative processes remains elusive. We study radiation and polarization of relativistic electrons in a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Ziqiang Huang , Qi Meng , Xuan Liu , Wei Ma , Zhen Yang , Liang Lu , Alexander J. Silenko , Pengming Zhang , Liping Zou

Relativistic positron sources with high spin polarization have important applications in nuclear and particle physics and many frontier fields. However, it is challenging to produce dense polarized positrons. Here we present a simple and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Xing-Long Zhu , Wei-Yuan Liu , Tong-Pu Yu , Min Chen , Su-Ming Weng , Wei-Min Wang , Zheng-Ming Sheng

A relativistic electron-positron beam propagating through a magnetized electron-ion plasma is shown to generate both circularly and linearly polarized synchrotron radiation. The degrees of circular and linear polarizations depend both on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Ujjwal Sinha , Christoph H. Keitel , Naveen Kumar

We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. Polarization effects in this process are important for a number of physical problems. We discuss a probability of this process for linearly polarized laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Yu. Ivanov , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

The subject of this paper is the scattering of a very intense laser pulse (intensity $I\sim10^{21}\;{\mathrm{W/cm^2}}$) on relativistic electrons with Lorentz factor between 10 and 45. The laser pulse is modeled by a plane wave with finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 Madalina Boca , Andreea Oprea

Relativistic spin-polarized electron beams are important for fundamental research and the industry, but their generation currently requires conventional accelerators or ultrastrong laser facilities, limiting their accessibility and broad…

Rapid development of ultrafast ultraintense laser technologies continues to create opportunities for studying strong-field physics under extreme conditions. However, accurate determination of the spatial and temporal characteristics of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Zhi-Wei Lu , Xin-Di Hou , Feng Wan , Yousef I. Salamin , Chong Lv , Bo Zhang , Fei Wang , Zhong-Feng Xu , Jian-Xing Li

We study nonperturbative multiphoton electron-positron pair creation in ultrastrong electromagnetic fields formed by two counterpropagating pulses with elliptic polarization. Our numerical approach allows us to take into account the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

We study the electron scatter from the freely movable spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particle in the presence of a linearly polarized laser field in the first Born approximation. The dressed state of electrons is described by a time-dependent wave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Ai-Hua Liu , Shu-Min Li

We demonstrated for the first time the production of highly polarized short-pulse positrons with a finite energy spread in accordance with a new scheme that consists of two-quantum processes, such as inverse Compton scatterings and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Omori , M. Fukuda , T. Hirose , Y. Kurihara , R. Kuroda , M. Nomura , A. Ohashi , T. Okugi , K. Sakaue , T. Saito , J. Urakawa , M. Washio , I. Yamazaki

The electron spin degree of freedom can play a significant role in relativistic scattering processes involving intense laser fields. In this contribution we discuss the influence of the electron spin on (i) Kapitza-Dirac scattering in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-05 S. Ahrens , T. O. Müller , S. Villalba-Chávez , H. Bauke , C. Müller

Laser fields can be shaped on a subwavelength scale as to have a specific distribution in spin angular momentum, orbital structure, or topology. We study how these various features affect the strongly nonlinear electron dynamics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Jonas Wätzel , Jamal Berakdar

Generation of circularly-polarized (CP) and linearly-polarized (LP) $\gamma$-rays via the single-shot interaction of an ultraintense laser pulse with a spin-polarized counterpropagating ultrarelativistic electron beam has been investigated…

Under quite generic assumptions the general expression is derived for the probability of circularly polarized photon emission from the longitudinally polarized electron and for the probability of pair creation of longitudinally polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

The colliding between ultra-relativistic electrons and an ultra-intense laser pulse is a powerful approach to testify the physics in strong-field QED regime. By considering spin-dependent radiation-reaction during laser-electron collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 X. S. Geng , L. L. Ji , B. F. Shen , B. Feng , Z. Guo , Q. Q. Han , C. Y. Qin , N. W. Wang , W. Q. Wang , Y. T. Wu , X. Yan , Q. Yu , L. G. Zhang , Z. Z. Xu

We consider electron-atom scattering in a circularly polarized laser field at sufficiently high electron energies, permitting to describe the scattering process by the first order Born approximation. Assuming the radiation field has…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Aurelia Cionga , Fritz Ehlotzky , Gabriela Zloh