Bright rays source and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pairs in the collision of high density particle beams
Abstract
The collision of ultrashort high-density or and beams at 10s of GeV, to be available at the FACET II and in laser wakefield accelerator experiments, can produce highly collimated rays (few GeVs) with peak brilliance of and up to nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pairs. We provide analytical estimates of the photon source properties and of the yield of secondary pairs, finding excellent agreement with full-scale 3D self-consistent particle-in-cell simulations that include quantum electrodynamics effects. Our results show that beam-beam collisions can be exploited as secondary sources of rays and provide an alternative to beam-laser setups to probe quantum electrodynamics effects at the Schwinger limit.
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- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1493957
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1612125
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0014260
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Accelerators and Beams Journal Volume: 22 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9888
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Physics
Citation Formats
Del Gaudio, F., Grismayer, T., Fonseca, R. A., Mori, W. B., and Silva, L. O. Bright γ rays source and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pairs in the collision of high density particle beams. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.023402.
Del Gaudio, F., Grismayer, T., Fonseca, R. A., Mori, W. B., & Silva, L. O. Bright γ rays source and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pairs in the collision of high density particle beams. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.023402
Del Gaudio, F., Grismayer, T., Fonseca, R. A., Mori, W. B., and Silva, L. O. Fri .
"Bright γ rays source and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pairs in the collision of high density particle beams". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.023402.
@article{osti_1493957,
title = {Bright γ rays source and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pairs in the collision of high density particle beams},
author = {Del Gaudio, F. and Grismayer, T. and Fonseca, R. A. and Mori, W. B. and Silva, L. O.},
abstractNote = {The collision of ultrashort high-density e- or e- and e+ beams at 10s of GeV, to be available at the FACET II and in laser wakefield accelerator experiments, can produce highly collimated γ rays (few GeVs) with peak brilliance of 1027 ph/s mm2 mrad20.1%BW and up to 105 nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pairs. We provide analytical estimates of the photon source properties and of the yield of secondary pairs, finding excellent agreement with full-scale 3D self-consistent particle-in-cell simulations that include quantum electrodynamics effects. Our results show that beam-beam collisions can be exploited as secondary sources of γ rays and provide an alternative to beam-laser setups to probe quantum electrodynamics effects at the Schwinger limit.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.023402},
journal = {Physical Review Accelerators and Beams},
number = 2,
volume = 22,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.023402
Web of Science
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