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We study coherent backscattering of a monochromatic laser by a dilute gas of cold two-level atoms in the weakly nonlinear regime. The nonlinear response of the atoms results in a modification of both the average field propagation (nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud , Dominique Delande , Christian Miniatura

Compton scattering of short and ultra short (sub-cycle) laser pulses off mildly relativistic electrons is considered within a QED framework. The temporal shape of the pulse is essential for the differential cross section as a function of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Alexander I. Titov , Burkhard Kampfer , Takuya Shibata , Atsushi Hosaka , Hideaki Takabe

We present a new theoretical approach to attosecond laser-assisted photo- and Compton ionization. Attosecond x-ray absorption and scattering are described by $\hat{\mathrsfs{S}}^{(1,2)}$-matrices, which are coherent superpositions of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-12-24 G. L. Yudin , D. I. Bondar , S. Patchkovskii , P. B. Corkum , A. D. Bandrauk

The laser of an intense electromagnetic field promotes the studies of strong-field particle physics in high-intensity frontier. Particle accelerator facilities in the world produce high-quality muon and proton beams. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Tong Li , Kai Ma , Man Yuan

We present a Monte Carlo collisional scheme that models single Compton scattering between leptons and photons in particle-in-cell codes. The numerical implementation of Compton scattering can deal with macro-particles of different weights…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 F. Del Gaudio , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

The process of Compton scattering by a free electron with subsequent reemission of one or two photons is considered in the assumption of finite interaction time. The corresponding cross sections are obtained in the framework of relativistic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 V. Dubrovich , T. Zalialiutdinov

Nonlinear Compton scattering driven by ultraintense lasers presents a promising avenue for enhancing the photon energy, brilliance, and setup compactness of $\gamma$-ray sources. However, a significant challenge lies in achieving a high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Xian-Zhang Wu , Yan-Fei Li , Yu-Tong 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

We estimate the two-photon exchange contribution to elastic electron-proton scattering at large momentum transfer by using a quark-parton representation of virtual Compton scattering. We thus can relate the two-photon exchange amplitude to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei V. Afanasev , Stanley J. Brodsky , Carl E. Carlson , Yu-Chun Chen , Marc Vanderhaeghen

The process in which a photon splits into three after the collision with a free electron (triple Compton effect) is the most basic process for the generation of a high-energy multi-particle entangled state composed out of elementary quanta.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-11 E. Lötstedt , U. D. Jentschura

Some non linear, second order QED processes in the presence of intense plane electromagnetic waves are investigated. Analytic expressions with general kinematics are derived for Compton scattering and $e^+e^-$ pair production in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-12 A. Hartin

Compton scattering is one of the fundamental interaction processes of light with matter. Already upon its discovery [1] it was described as a billiard-type collision of a photon kicking a quasi-free electron. With decreasing photon energy,…

A dual-beam platform for all-optical electron-photon scattering, or Thomson/Compton scattering, with adjustable collision-angle and parameter tuning ability has been developed, which, in principle, can be used for the verification of…

Our paper concerns the scattering of intense laser radiation on free electrons and it is focused on the relation between nonlinear Compton and nonlinear Thomson scattering. The analysis is performed for a laser field modeled by an ideal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 M. Boca , V. Florescu

The impact of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of an intense multi-cycle laser pulse on the radiation of an electron beam during nonlinear Compton scattering is investigated. An interaction regime of the electron beam counterpropagating to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Jian-Xing Li , Yue-Yue Chen , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Optical emitters strongly coupled to photons propagating in one-dimensional waveguides are a promising platform for optical quantum information processing. Here, we present a theoretical study of the scattering of two indistinguishable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Alexandre Roulet , Huy Nguyen Le , Valerio Scarani

Electromagnetic radiation by accelerated charges is a fundamental process in physics. Here, we introduce a quantum-optical framework for controlling the emission of radiation of an electron in an intense laser field via squeezed vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 A. Di Piazza , K. Qu

Emission of high energy gamma rays via the non-linear inverse Compton scattering process (ICS) in interactions of ultra-intense laser pulses with thin solid foils is studied using particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that the angular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Jiří Vyskočil , Evgeny Gelfer , Ondřej Klimo

We develop a wavefunction approach to describe the scattering of two photons on a quantum emitter embedded in a one-dimensional waveguide. Our method allows us to calculate the exact dynamics of the complete system at all times, as well as…

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…