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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

We attracted attention to some peculiarities of positron production for linear collider (ILC). The conversion system with many targets and low K-factor is our primary interest.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-06-24 Alexander Mikhailichenko

The inverse Compton scattering of laser light on high-energetic twisted electrons is investigated with the aim to construct spatially structured x-ray beams. In particular, we analyze how the properties of the twisted electrons, such as the…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-04 D. Seipt , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche

A possible way of producing gravitons in the laboratory is investigated. We evaluate the cross section electron + photon $\rightarrow$ electron + graviton in the framework of linearized gravitation, and analyse this reaction considering the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 S. F. Novaes , D. Spehler

We propose a method for polarising antiprotons in a storage ring by means of a polarised positron beam moving parallel to the antiprotons. If the relative velocity is adjusted to $v/c \approx 0.002$ the cross section for spin-flip is as…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-02-19 Th. Walcher , H. Arenhoevel , K. Aulenbacher , R. Barday , A. Jankowiak

Spatial distribution of intensity, degree and direction of linear polarization of tagged photon beam, which is obtained due to Compton backscattering of laser light on high-energy electron beam, are calculated. Effects of angular dispersion…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. P. Peresunko

Generation of ultrarelativistic polarized positrons during interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating two-color petawatt laser pulse is investigated theoretically. Our Monte Carlo simulation based on a…

The interaction of photons with relativistic electrons constitutes a fundamental electromagnetic process whose polarization transfer mechanics remain incompletely characterized. We report the first systematic measurement of spatial…

The backscattering of laser radiation by a relativistic electron beam is a widely used method for measuring the spin polarization of electrons. We consider again the properties of the scattering process paying special attention to recoil…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 N. Yu. Muchnoi

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

One of the major goals of research for laser-plasma accelerators is the realization of compact sources of femtosecond X-rays. In particular, using the modest electron energies obtained with existing laser systems, Compton scattering a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 K. Ta Phuoc , S. Corde , C. Thaury , V. Malka , A. Tafzi , J. P. Goddet , R. C. Shah , S. Sebban , A. Rousse

Compton scattering of a laser beam with a relativistic electron beam has been used to generate intense, highly polarized and nearly monoenergetic x-ray or gamma-ray beams at many facilities. The ability to predict the spatial, spectral and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Changchun Sun , Ying K. Wu

An accessible tabletop source for the production of entangled x rays is crucial for the field of high-energy quantum optics. Here, we present a detailed analysis of the entanglement and polarization of the two photons emitted by an electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 T. D. C. de Vos , J. J. Postema , B. H. Schaap , A. Di Piazza , O. J. Luiten

A compact polarized positron source for Jefferson Lab is discussed. This scheme relies upon a high polarization (85%), high current (1 mA), low-energy (<100 MeV) electron beam to generate polarized positrons in a conversion target via…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-16 J. Dumas , J. Grames , E. Voutier

Presently large efforts are conducted towards the development of highly brilliant gamma beams via Compton back scattering of photons from a high-brilliance electron beam, either on the basis of a normal-conducting electron linac or a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Hugenschmidt , K. Schreckenbach , D. Habs , P. G. Thirolf

Qiao and his collaborators recently proposed an inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) model to explain radio emission of pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the polarization properties of pulsar emission in the model. First of all, using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. X. Xu , J. F. Liu , J. L. Han , G. J. Qiao

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

The process of $e^+e^-$ production in the superposition of a Coulomb and a strong laser field is considered. The pair production rate integrated over the momentum and summed over the spin projections of one of the particles is derived…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 A. Di Piazza , A. I. Milstein , C. Müller

The generation of X-rays and {\gamma}-rays based on synchrotron radiation from free electrons, emitted in magnet arrays such as undulators, forms the basis of much of modern X-ray science. This approach has the drawback of requiring very…

A photon-positron conversion target of the undulator or laser based polarized positron source is optimized using a modified GEANT-3 program adapted to count the spin transfer. High intensity positron beam with around 0.75 polarisation could…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-16 V. Gharibyan