Conceptual Design Report for the LUXE Experiment
Abstract
This Conceptual Design Report describes LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experimental campaign that aims to combine the high-quality and high-energy electron beam of the European XFEL with a powerful laser to explore the uncharted terrain of quantum electrodynamics characterised by both high energy and high intensity. We will reach this hitherto inaccessible regime of quantum physics by analysing high-energy electron-photon and photon-photon interactions in the extreme environment provided by an intense laser focus. The physics background and its relevance are presented in the science case which in turn leads to, and justifies, the ensuing plan for all aspects of the experiment: Our choice of experimental parameters allows (i) effective field strengths to be probed at and beyond the Schwinger limit and (ii) a precision to be achieved that permits a detailed comparison of the measured data with calculations. In addition, the high photon flux predicted will enable a sensitive search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The initial phase of the experiment will employ an existing 40 TW laser, whereas the second phase will utilise an upgraded laser power of 350 TW. All expectations regarding the performance of the experimental set-up as well as the expected physics results are based on detailed numerical simulations throughout.
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@article{arxiv.2102.02032,
title = {Conceptual Design Report for the LUXE Experiment},
author = {Halina Abramowicz and Uwe Hernandez Acosta and Massimo Altarelli and Ralph Assmann and Zhaoyu Bai and Ties Behnke and Yan Benhammou and Thomas Blackburn and Stewart Boogert and Oleksandr Borysov and Maryna Borysova and Reinhard Brinkmann and Marco Bruschi and Florian Burkart and Karsten Büßer and Niall Cavanagh and Oz Davidi and Winfried Decking and Umberto Dosselli and Nina Elkina and Alexander Fedotov and Miroslaw Firlej and Tomasz Fiutowski and Kyle Fleck and Mikhail Gostkin and Christophe Grojean and John Andrew Hallford and Harsh Harsh and Anthony Hartin and Beate Heinemann and Tom Heinzl and Louis Helary and Marius Hoffmann and Shan Huang and Xinhe Huang and Marek Idzik and Anton Ilderton and Ruth Magdalena Jacobs and Burkhard Kaempfer and Ben King and Hlib Lakhno and Assaf Levanon and Aharon Levy and Itamar Levy and Jenny List and Wolfgang Lohmann and Teng Ma and Alexander John Macleod and Victor Malka and Federico Meloni and Arseny Mironov and Mauro Morandin and Jakub Moron and Evgueni Negodin and Gilad Perez and Ishay Pomerantz and Roman Poeschl and Rajendra Prasad and Fabien Quere and Andreas Ringwald and Christian Roedel and Sergey Rykovanov and Felipe Salgado and Arka Santra and Gianluca Sarri and Alexander Saevert and Antonio Sbrizzi and Stefan Schmitt and Ulrich Schramm and Sergej Schuwalow and Daniel Seipt and Leila Shaimerdenova and Mykyta Shchedrolosiev and Maksim Skakunov and Yotam Soreq and Matthew Streeter and Krzysztof Swientek and Noam Tal Hod and Suo Tang and Thomas Teter and Daniel Thoden and Alexander Titov and Oleg Tolbanov and Greger Torgrimsson and Anton Tyazhev and Matthew Wing and Marco Zanetti and Andrei Zarubin and Karl Zeil and Matt Zepf and Aleksey Zhemchukov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02032},
year = {2021}
}