Ultrafast polarization of an electron beam in an intense bichromatic laser field

Seipt, Daniel; Del Sorbo, Dario; Ridgers, Christopher P.; Thomas, Alec G.  R.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.100.061402

Title: Ultrafast polarization of an electron beam in an intense bichromatic laser field

Journal Article · 03 December 2019 · Physical Review A

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.061402 · OSTI ID:1594529

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Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Univ. of York (United Kindom)

In this work, we demonstrate the radiative polarization of high-energy electron beams in collisions with ultrashort pulsed bichromatic laser fields. Employing a Boltzmann kinetic approach for the electron distribution allows us to simulate the beam polarization over a wide range of parameters and determine the optimum conditions for maximum radiative polarization. Those results are contrasted with a Monte Carlo algorithm where photon emission and associated spin effects are treated fully quantum mechanically using spin-dependent photon emission rates. The latter method includes realistic focusing laser fields, which allows us to simulate a near-term experimentally feasible scenario of an 8 GeV electron beam scattering from a 1 PW laser pulse and provide a measurement that would verify the ultrafast radiative polarization in high-intensity laser pulses that we predict. Aspects of spin-dependent radiation reaction are also discussed, with spin polarization leading to a measurable (5%) splitting of the energies of spin-up and spin-down electrons.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; US Army Research Office (ARO); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1594529

Journal Information:: Physical Review A, Journal Name: Physical Review A Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 100; ISSN PLRAAN; ISSN 2469-9926

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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