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We consider pair creation by collision of a couple of counterpropagating electromagnetic pulses with arbitrary frequency ratio, mostly in the context of setup with collision of optical and coherent hard X- (or gamma-) ray pulses. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 A. M. Fedotov , A. A. Mironov

An ultrarelativistic electron beam passing through an intense laser pulse emits radiation around its direction of propagation into a characteristic angular profile. Here we show that measurement of the variances of this profile in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 T. G. Blackburn , E. Gerstmayr , S. P. D. Mangles , M. Marklund

The new method for producing of the polarized relativistic positrons is suggested. A beam of unpolarized positrons accelerated up to a few GeV can be polarized during a head-on collision with an intense circularly polarized lazer wave.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Potylitsyn

The dynamics of electrons in counter-propagating, circularly polarized laser beams are shown to exhibit attractors whose ability to trap particles depends on the ratio of the beam intensities and a single parameter describing radiation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 J. G. Kirk

We present methods to measure the beam polarizations and the luminosity of $\gamma \gamma$ colliders at TeV energy scale. The beam polarizations of a $\gamma \gamma$ collider can easily be monitored by comparing the numbers of events of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Y. Yasui , I. Watanabe , J. Kodaira , I. Endo

The main possibilities of investigation of leptons and bosons production in interaction of polarized photons are considered. The usage of $\gamma\gamma\to f\bar{f}[+\gamma]$ reactions for the luminosity measurement on linear photon collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-08-21 T. V. Shishkina

Fully polarized nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production from a beam of polarized seed photons is investigated in pulsed plane-wave backgrounds. The particle (electron and positron) spin and photon polarization are comprehensively described…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Suo Tang

Short-pulse effects are investigated for the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, i.e. the production of an electron-positron pair induced by a gamma photon inside an intense plane-wave laser pulse. To obtain the total pair-creation probability…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-29 Sebastian Meuren , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Antonino Di Piazza

Non-linear Compton scattering of ultra-relativistic electrons traversing high-intensity laser pulses generates also hard photons. These photon high-energy tails are considered for parameters in reach at the forthcoming experiments LUXE and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-10 B. Kampfer , A. I. Titov

We investigate electron-positron pair creation in the interaction of a nuclear Coulomb field and a highly intense two-mode laser field. For bichromatic laser fields, we examine the differences arising for commensurable and incommensurable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 Sven Augustin , Carsten Müller

Plasma based acceleration is considered a promising concept for the next generation of linear electron-positron colliders. Despite the great progress achieved over last twenty years in laser technology, laser and beam driven particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 S. S. Bulanov , C. Benedetti , D. Terzani , C. B. Schroeder , E. Esarey , T. Blackburn , M. Marklund

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

In this paper we derive and discuss the completely spin- and photon-polarisation dependent probability rates for nonlinear Compton scattering and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production. The locally constant field approximation, which is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 D. Seipt , B. King

Generation of antimatter via the multiphoton Breit-Wheeler process in an all-optical scheme will be made possible on forthcoming high-power laser facilities through the collision of wakefield-accelerated GeV electrons with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Mathieu Lobet , Xavier Davoine , Emmanuel d'Humières , Laurent Gremillet

Generation of ultrarelativistic polarized leptons during interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating ultraintense laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated domain. While the symmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Kai-Hong Zhuang , Yue-Yue Chen , Yan-Fei Li , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

The production of a highly-polarized positron beam via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler processes during the interaction of an ultraintense circularly polarized laser pulse with a longitudinally spin-polarized ultrarelativistic electron beam is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yan-Fei Li , Yue-Yue Chen , Wei-Min Wang , Hua-Si Hu

The forthcoming generation of multi-petawatt lasers opens the way to abundant pair production by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, i.e., the decay of a photon into an electron-positron pair inside an intense laser field. In this paper we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 A. Mercuri-Baron , M. Grech , F. Niel , A. Grassi , M. Lobet , A. Di Piazza , C. Riconda

The advent of back-scattered laser beams for electron-positron colliders will allow detailed studies of a large array of high energy photon-photon and photon-electron collision processes with polarized beams. These include tests of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Stanley J. Brodsky

We discovered a simple regime where a near-critical plasma irradiated by a laser of experimentally available intensity can self-organize to produce positrons and accelerate them to ultra-relativistic energies. The laser pulse piles up…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 K. Sugimoto , Y. He , N. Iwata , I-L. Yeh , K. Tangtartharakul , A. Arefiev , Y. Sentoku

We have performed a novel comparison between electron-beam polarimeters based on M{\o}ller and Compton scattering. A sequence of electron-beam polarization measurements were performed at low beam currents ($<$ 5 $\mu$A) during the $Q_{\rm…