Related papers: Calibration processes for photon-photon colliders
The process of pair creation by a photon in a constant and homogeneous electric field is investigated basing on the polarization operator in the field. The total probability of the process is found in a relatively simple form. At high…
Beam polarization at e^+e^- linear colliders will be a powerful tool for high precision analyses. In this paper we summarize the polarization-related results for Higgs and electroweak physics, QCD, Supersymmetry and alternative theories…
Two experiments were made using a microwave generator, which sent a narrow beam, through a metallic plate with horizontal movement. At the other end a horn antenna coupled to a field-strength detector. In linear polarization double cycloids…
We report on two optical realizations of the $1 \to 2$ asymmetric phase-covariant cloning machines for polarization states of single photons. The experimental setups combine two-photon interference and tunable polarization filtering that…
Intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions can produce a spin polarization of the projectile-like species. Spin polarization has been observed for both nucleon removal and nucleon pickup processes. Qualitative agreement with measured spin…
Axion-like particles (ALPs) are very light, neutral, spin zero bosons predicted by superstring theory. ALPs interact primarily with two photons and in the presence of an external magnetic field they generate photon-ALP oscillations and the…
For the planned International Linear Collider it is intended to have both -- electron and positron -- beams polarised. This offers a great benefit for many physics studies, but also provides a challenge for the engineering of the machine. A…
We present a detailed phenomenological study of photoproduction of two hadrons, both with high transverse momentum, in longitudinally polarized lepton-nucleon collisions. We consistently include ``direct'' and ``resolved'' photon…
Using spontaneous parametric down conversion and a 50:50 beam splitter, we generate coaxial polarization-entangled photon pairs, of which the two photons are far separated from each other. The photons are then sent one by one through one…
The compact expressions for cross sections of photoproduction of a pair of charged particles $\mathrm{e}^+,\mathrm{e}^-$; $\mu^+,\mu^-$; $\pi^+,\pi^-$ as well as the double Compton scattering process are given. The explicit analytic…
Many studies have shown that high-energy $\gamma$-photon beams can be efficiently generated via nonlinear Compton scattering driven by laser pulses with intensities $> 10^{22}\rm{W/cm^2}$ recently available in laboratories. Here, we propose…
Photon collider based on cold and warm linear collider technologies are compared from the point of view of attainable luminosities, technical feasibility of laser systems and experimental conditions.
The results of a complete one-loop calculation for the production of chargino pairs in electron-positron collisions, including the option of polarized beams, are presented. The calculation has been performed in the on-shell renormalization…
We consider the production of heavy-quark pairs in the collisions of polarized and unpolarized on-shell photons and present, in analytic form, the fully integrated total cross sections for total photon spins $J_z=0, \pm 2$ at…
Photon pairs, highly entangled in polarization have been generated under femtosecond laser pulse excitation by a type I crystal source, operating in a single arm interferometric scheme. The relevant effects of temporal walk-off existing in…
A nonlinear quantum-optical process is considered: emission of photon pairs by the reflecting end of a fiber excited by a standing laser wave. Radiation occurs due to periodic changes in the optical length of the fiber over time. This…
We calculate the rate of precession of the direction of polarization of a photon traversing a sea of plane-polarized photons moving in the opposed direction, where the interaction is the one-loop "vacuum" Heisenberg-Euler coupling of four…
The regions of pair particle energies and emergence angles in the process of photoproduction of electron-positron pairs in the coulomb field by polarized photons are found in which a value of cross section asymmetry is essentially large.…
Process of lepton pair production by polarized photon on nuclei can be used to measure the degree of linear polarization of high energy photon. The differential cross section and the analyzing power are calculated with taking into account…
The collision of two intense, low-frequency laser beams is considered. The $e^-e^+$ pairs created in this field are shown to exhibit recollisions, which take place at high energy accumulated due to the wiggling of fermions. The resulting…