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Intense positron beams can be prepared via electro production with the reaction $e^{-} + e^{-} \rightarrow e^{-}+e^{+}+e^{-}+e^{-}$ due to the availability of high current electron beams. Head on collisions inside of a magnetic field of a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-07-14 Berthold Schoch

We study azimuthal asymmetries in heavy quark pair production in unpolarized electron-proton and proton-proton collisions, where the asymmetries originate from the linear polarization of gluons inside unpolarized hadrons. We provide cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Cristian Pisano , Daniel Boer , Stanley J. Brodsky , Maarten G. A. Buffing , Piet J. Mulders

The spin effect of electrons/positrons ($e^-$/$e^+$) and polarization effect of $\gamma$ photons are investigated in the interaction of two counter-propagating linearly polarized 10-PW-class laser pulses with a thin foil target. The…

Recent e+e- annihilation experiments show a striking spin alignment of vector mesons produced in the fragmentation of a polarized quark.We show that these data imply a simple relation between the polarization of the anti-quark, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zuo-tang Liang

The $e^+e^-$ pair production in collisions of muon with atoms is considered to all orders in the parameter $Z\alpha$. We obtain energy distribution of $e^+$ and $e^-$ as well as energy loss of muon passing through matter with heavy atoms.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Ivanov , E. A. Kuraev , A. Schiller , V. G. Serbo

We show that top-quark pairs are produced in an essentially unique spin configuration in polarized $e^+e^-$ colliders at all energies above the threshold region. Since the directions of the electroweak decay products of polarized top-quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Stephen Parke , Yael Shadmi

We discussed the photoproduction of pair of charged particles $a\bar{a}\quad (a=e,\mu,\pi)$ as well as the double photon emission processes off an electron accounting for the polarization of colliding particles. In the kinematics when all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-04 S. R. Gevorkyan , E. A. Kuraev

It is shown that at muon colliders with the energy in the region of 100 TeV the process of coherent pair creation by the muon in the field of the opposing beam becomes important and imposes some limitations on collider parameters.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Valery Telnov

Spin correlations of $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair productions of two colliding photons are investigated and explicit expressions for their corresponding probabilities are derived and found to be \textit{energy} (speed) dependent, for initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 N. Yongram

We present a Monte Carlo (MC) study of $W^{\pm}$ and $Z_{0}$ production of longitudinally polarized proton collisions at a center of mass (CMS) energy of $500\,{\rm GeV}$. All results were obtained with the SPHINX MC code. We consider two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Saalfeld , Andreas Schafer

In e^+e^- annihilation at \sqrt{s}=10.6 GeV Belle Collaboration found, that J/psi mesons are predominantly produced in association with an extra \bar{c}c pair. The possible mechanisms of J/psi production are discussed and the probability of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 B. L. Ioffe

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

We calculate the number of $e^+ e^-$-pairs produced by a Compton high energy photon in turn formed in the process $e + n \gamma_0 -> e + \gamma$ at simultaneous collision with several photons $\gamma_0$ of the same laser beam $\gamma + s…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 Mikhail Galynskii , Sergei Sikach

The creation of particles by two colliding strong laser beams is considered. It is found that the electron-positron pairs created in the laser field via the Schwinger mechanism may recollide after one or several oscillations in the field.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-24 Michael Kuchiev , Julian Ingham

The generation of muon-antimuon pairs is calculated in the collision of an ultrarelativistic bare ion with an intense x-ray laser beam. The reaction proceeds nonlinearly via absorption of two laser photons. By systematic study throughout…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carsten Müller , Carlus Deneke , Christoph H. Keitel

The results concerning the $e^+e^-$ production in peripheral highly relativistic heavy-ion collisions presented in a recent paper by Baltz {\em{et al.}} are rederived in a very straightforward manner. It is shown that the solution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 A. Aste , G. Baur , K. Hencken , D. Trautmann , G. Scharf

We discuss in detail top quark polarization in above-threshold (t \bar t)-production at a polarized linear e^+ e^- collider. We pay particular attention to the minimization and maximization of the polarization of the top quark by tuning the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 S. Groote , J. G. Körner , B. Melić , S. Prelovsek

The probability of electron-positron pair creation by a focused laser pulse is calculated. For description of the focused laser pulse we use a 3-dimensional model of the electromagnetic field which is based on an exact solution of Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. S. Bulanov , N. B. Narozhny , V. D. Mur , V. S. Popov

We consider a highly unconventional approach to generating muon and antimuon bunches for a neutrino factory or muon collider: electron-positron annihilation just above muon-antimuon threshold. This approach can produce low-emittance bunches…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-07-12 D. M. Kaplan , T. Hart , P. Allport

Spin-polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-reaction regime. We develop a Monte-Carlo method to model electron radiative spin effects in…