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Polarized attosecond $\gamma-$rays may offer excitation and hyperfine tracking of reactions relevant to nuclear physics, astrophysics, high-energy physics, etc. However, unfortunately, generation of a feasible and easy-to-deploy source is…

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We detail a method to produce a GeV-photon source with polarisation purity exceeding $96\%$ and $89\%$ for linear and circular polarisation respectively and with a brilliance of the order of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 S. Tang , B. King , H. Hu

Polarized X-ray source is an important probe for many fields such as fluorescence imaging, magnetic microscopy, and nuclear physics research. All-optical inverse Compton scattering source (AOCS) based on laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA)…

High-energy spin-polarized electron, positron, and $\gamma$-photon beams have many significant applications in the study of material properties, nuclear structure, particle physics, and high-energy astrophysics. Thus,efficient production of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Ting Sun , Qian Zhao , Kun Xue , Zhi-Wei Lu , Liang-Liang Ji , Feng Wan , Yu Wang , Yousef I. Salamin , Jian-Xing Li

Cylindrical vector (CV) beams, whose polarizations are cylindrically symmetric, have recently been widely applied in high energy density physics such as electron acceleration and intense spatiotemporal optical vortices generation.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Wei Liu , Qing Jia , Jian Zheng

It is shown by three-dimensional QED particle-in-cell simulation that as a laser pulse of 2.5 PW and 20 fs propagates along a sub-wavelength-wide solid wire, directional synchrotron $\gamma-$rays along the wire surface can be efficiently…

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High energy photons can be generated via inverse Compton scattering (ICS) in the collision between energetic electrons and intense laser pulse. The development of laser plasma accelerators promises compact and all-optical gamma-ray sources…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-22 Xuesong Geng , Liangliang Ji , Baifei Shen

Gamma-ray flash generation in near critical density (NCD) target irradiated by four symmetrical colliding laser pulses is numerically investigated. With peak intensities about $10^{23}$ W/cm$^2$, the laser pulses boost electron energy…

The plasma photocathode has previously been proposed as a source of ultra-high-brightness electron bunches within plasma accelerators. Here, the scheme is extended by using a radially-polarized ionizing laser pulse to generate high-charge,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 James Chappell , Emily Archer , Roman Walczak , Simon Hooker

Cylindrical vector (CV) gamma rays can introduce spatially structured polarization as a new degree of freedom for fundamental research and practical applications. However, their generation and control remain largely unexplored. Here, we put…

Brilliance of novel gamma-ray Crystal-based Light Sources (CLS) that can be constructed through exposure of oriented crystals to beams of ultra-relativistic charged particles is calculated basing on the atomistic scale numerical modeling of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Gennady B. Sushko , Andrei V. Korol , Andrey V. Solov'yov

Narrow bandwidth, high energy photon sources can be generated by Thomson scattering of laser light from energetic electrons, and detailed control of the interaction is needed to produce high quality sources. We present analytic calculations…

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The continuous development of bright x/gamma-ray sources has opened up new frontiers of science and advanced applications. Currently, there is still a lack of efficient approaches to produce gamma-rays with photon energies up to GeV and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Xing-Long Zhu , Min Chen , Zheng-Ming Sheng

Employing colliding-pulse injection has been shown to enable high-quality electron beams to be generated from laser-plasma accelerators. Here by leveraging test particle simulations, Hamiltonian analysis, and multidimensional…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Zheng Gong , Michael J. Quin , Simon Bohlen , Christoph H. Keitel , Kristjan Põder , Matteo Tamburini

All-optical Compton scattering is a remarkable method of generating high-quality $\gamma$ radiation source. It is easier achieved in experiment by employing a pulse based on laser wakefield accelerator. The driving laser is backward…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 Q. Yu , Y. Zhang , Q. Kong , S. Kawata

We present an in-depth experimental-computational study of the parameters necessary to optimize a tunable, quasi-monoenergetic, efficient, low-background Compton backscattering (CBS) x-ray source that is based on the self-aligned…

Spin-polarized particle beams are of interest for applications like deep-inelastic scattering, e.g. to gain further understanding of the proton's nuclear structure. With the advent of high-intensity laser facilities, laser-plasma-based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Lars Reichwein , Zheng Gong , Chuan Zheng , Liangliang Ji , Alexander Pukhov , Markus Büscher

We discuss design and practical realization of novel gamma-ray Crystal-based Light Sources (CLS) that can be constructed through exposure of oriented crystals (linear, bent, periodically bent) to beams of ultrarelativistic charged…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Andrei V. Korol , Andrey V. Solov'yov

The acceleration of polarized electrons, positrons, protons and ions in strong laser and plasma fields is a very attractive option to obtain polarized beams in the multi-MeV range. Recently, there has been substantial progress in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Markus Büscher , Anna Hützen , Liangliang Ji , Andreas Lehrach

The circularly polarized gamma-quanta with energy > 10 MeV are formed during Compton backscattering of circularly polarized laser photons on an electron beam with energy 1.26 GeV. The contribution of nonlinear processes for planned…

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