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We demonstrate that the nontrivial dispersion of a plasma driven by a high-intensity laser pulse qualitatively affects fundamental nonperturbative QED processes triggered by the laser pulse even in the case that no electrons remain in the…

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Impacts of spin-polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with a strong laser pulse on emitted photon spectra and electron dynamics have been investigated in the quantum radiation regime. We simulate photon…

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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

Inverse Compton scattering of an ultra-relativistic electron in the field of a high-intensity laser produces photon beams with angular and spectral distributions that are strongly dependent on the laser intensity. Here, we show that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 K. Fleck , T. Blackburn , E. Gerstmayr , M. Bruschi , P. Grutta , M. Morandin , G. Sarri

In an intense laser field, an electron may decay by emitting a pair of photons. The two photons emitted during the process, which can be interpreted as a laser-dressed double Compton scattering, remain entangled in a quantifiable way:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 E. Lötstedt , U. D. Jentschura

Based on quantum theory, we investigate the distribution of the electrons scattered in nonlinear Compton effect by an electromagnetic plane wave. Deviations of the final electron momentum from its initial value are solely due to quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Madalina Boca , Victor Dinu , Viorica Florescu

By implementing the bremsstrahlung with Monte Carlo algorithm into the particle-in-cell code, the bremsstrahlung and nonlinear Compton scattering can be studied simultaneously in comparison way in the laser plasma interactions. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Feng Wan , Chong Lv , Moran Jia , Haibo Sang , Baisong Xie

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,…

Compton scattering plays an important role in various astrophysical objects such as accreting black holes and neutron stars, pulsars, and relativistic jets, clusters of galaxies as well as the early Universe. In most of the calculations it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-22 Juri Poutanen , Indrek Vurm

Compton scattering is one of the cornerstones of quantum physics, describing the fundamental interaction of a charged particle with photons. The Compton effect and its inverse are utilized in experiments driving free electrons by high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Majed Khalaf , Ido Kaminer

Compton scattering of low-frequency radiation by an isotropic distribution of (i) mildly and (ii) ultra relativistic electrons is considered. It is shown that the ensemble-averaged differential cross-section in this case is noticeably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Sergei Y. Sazonov , Rashid A. Sunyaev

The spectra of Compton radiation emitted during electron scattering off an intense laser beam are calculated using the framework of strong-field quantum electrodynamics. We model these intense laser beams as finite length plane-wave-fronted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-06 K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kaminski

The scattering of temporally shaped intense laser pulses off electrons is discussed by means of manifestly covariant quantum electrodynamics. We employ a framework based on Volkov states with a time dependent laser envelope in light-cone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-21 D. Seipt , B. Kampfer

The emission of a pair of entangled photons by an electron in an intense laser field can be described by two-photon transitions of laser-dressed, relativistic Dirac--Volkov states. In the limit of a small laser field intensity, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 E. Lötstedt , U. D. Jentschura

A century ago, J. J. Thomson showed that the scattering of low-intensity light by electrons was a linear process (i.e., the scattered light frequency was identical to that of the incident light) and that light's magnetic field played no…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-31 Szu-yuan Chen , Anatoly Maksimchuk , Donald Umstadter

Recent investigations by Fuchs et al. [Nat. Phys. 11, 964 (2015)] revealed an anomalous frequency shift in non-linear Compton scattering of high-intensity X-rays by electrons in solid beryllium. This frequency shift was at least 800 eV to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Akilesh Venkatesh , Francis Robicheaux

We investigate the phase interference effects in the nonlinear Compton scattering via the collision between an high-energy electron and the laser in the intermediate intensity region, and reveal that the importance of interference effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-15 Zu-dong Zhao , Suo Tang

The laser of an intense electromagnetic field provides an important tool to study the strong-field particle physics. The nonlinear Compton scattering was observed in the collision of an ultra-relativistic electron beam with a laser pulse in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-07 Kai Ma , 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

In the presence of an electromagnetic background plane-wave field, electron, positron, and photon states are not stable, because electrons and positrons emit photons and photons decay into electron-positron pairs. This decay of the particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-11 Tobias Podszus , Victor Dinu , Antonino Di Piazza