Laser-Particle Collider for Multi-GeV Photon Production
Abstract
As an alternative to Compton backscattering and bremsstrahlung, the process of colliding high-energy electron beams with strong laser fields can more efficiently provide both a cleaner and brighter source of photons in the multi-GeV range for fundamental studies in nuclear and quark-gluon physics. In order to favor the emission of high-energy quanta and minimize their decay into electron-positron pairs, the fields must not only be sufficiently strong, but also well localized. We here examine these aspects and develop the concept of a laser-particle collider tailored for high-energy photon generation. We show that the use of multiple colliding laser pulses with 0.4 PW of total power is capable of converting more than 18% of multi-GeV electrons passing through the high-field region into photons, each of which carries more than half of the electron initial energy.
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1529700
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- OSTI ID: 1576503
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- AC02-05CH11231
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 122 Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; Lasers; Particle interactions; Relativistic multiple-particle dynamics
Citation Formats
Magnusson, J., Gonoskov, A., Marklund, M., Esirkepov, T. Zh., Koga, J. K., Kondo, K., Kando, M., Bulanov, S. V., Korn, G., and Bulanov, S. S. Laser-Particle Collider for Multi-GeV Photon Production. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.254801.
Magnusson, J., Gonoskov, A., Marklund, M., Esirkepov, T. Zh., Koga, J. K., Kondo, K., Kando, M., Bulanov, S. V., Korn, G., & Bulanov, S. S. Laser-Particle Collider for Multi-GeV Photon Production. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.254801
Magnusson, J., Gonoskov, A., Marklund, M., Esirkepov, T. Zh., Koga, J. K., Kondo, K., Kando, M., Bulanov, S. V., Korn, G., and Bulanov, S. S. Thu .
"Laser-Particle Collider for Multi-GeV Photon Production". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.254801.
@article{osti_1529700,
title = {Laser-Particle Collider for Multi-GeV Photon Production},
author = {Magnusson, J. and Gonoskov, A. and Marklund, M. and Esirkepov, T. Zh. and Koga, J. K. and Kondo, K. and Kando, M. and Bulanov, S. V. and Korn, G. and Bulanov, S. S.},
abstractNote = {As an alternative to Compton backscattering and bremsstrahlung, the process of colliding high-energy electron beams with strong laser fields can more efficiently provide both a cleaner and brighter source of photons in the multi-GeV range for fundamental studies in nuclear and quark-gluon physics. In order to favor the emission of high-energy quanta and minimize their decay into electron-positron pairs, the fields must not only be sufficiently strong, but also well localized. We here examine these aspects and develop the concept of a laser-particle collider tailored for high-energy photon generation. We show that the use of multiple colliding laser pulses with 0.4 PW of total power is capable of converting more than 18% of multi-GeV electrons passing through the high-field region into photons, each of which carries more than half of the electron initial energy.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.254801},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 25,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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