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Spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse injection scheme

Accelerator Physics 2023-10-09 v2 Applied Physics Plasma Physics

Abstract

Employing colliding-pulse injection has been shown to enable high-quality electron beams to be generated from laser-plasma accelerators. Here by leveraging test particle simulations, Hamiltonian analysis, and multidimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, we lay the theoretical framework of spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse injection scheme. Furthermore, we show that this scheme enables the production of quasi-monoenergetic electron beams in excess of 80\% polarization and tens pC charge with commercial 10-TW-class laser systems.

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@article{arxiv.2303.16966,
  title  = {Spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse injection scheme},
  author = {Zheng Gong and Michael J. Quin and Simon Bohlen and Christoph H. Keitel and Kristjan Põder and Matteo Tamburini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.16966},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages, 10 figures

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