Seipt, Daniel, Del Sorbo, Dario, Ridgers, Christopher P. orcid.org/0000-0002-4078-0887 et al. (1 more author) (2019) Ultrafast polarization of an electron beam in an intense bichromatic laser field. Physical Review A. 061402. ISSN 1094-1622
Abstract
Here, 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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | ©2019 American Physical Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/M018156/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2020 10:30 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:45 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.061402 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.061402 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156029 |