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Title: Test of QED at critical field strength

Abstract

In a new experiment at the Final Focus Test Beam at SLAC, a low-emittance 46.6 GeV electron beam is brought into collisions with terawatt pulses of 1054 nm or 527 nm wavelength from a Nd:glass laser. Peak laser intensities of 10{sup 18} W/cm{sup 2} have been achieved corresponding to a value of 0.6 for the parameter {eta} = e{epsilon}/m{omega}{sub 0}c. In this case, an electron that crosses the center of the laser pulse has near-unit interaction probability. Results are presented for multiphoton Compton scattering in which an electron interacts with up to four laser photons, in agreement with theoretical calculations.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
542808
Report Number(s):
SLAC-R-494; CONF-9507258-
ON: DE97006538; TRN: 97:020210
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Summer Institute on Particle Physics conference on top quark of the electroweak interaction, Stanford, CA (United States), 10-21 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the Summer institute on particle physics: The top quark and the electroweak interaction; Burke, D.; Dixon, L.; Leith, D.W.G.S.; PB: 602 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
66 PHYSICS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; TESTING; PHOTON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; COMPTON EFFECT; NEODYMIUM LASERS; MULTI-PHOTON PROCESSES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY SPECTRA

Citation Formats

Bula, C. Test of QED at critical field strength. United States: N. p., 1997. Web.
Bula, C. Test of QED at critical field strength. United States.
Bula, C. 1997. "Test of QED at critical field strength". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/542808.
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