Production of polarized particle beams via ultraintense laser pulses

T Sun, Q Zhao, K Xue, ZW Lu, LL Ji, F Wan… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - Springer
High-energy spin-polarized electron, positron, and γ-photon beams have many significant
applications in the study of material properties, nuclear structure, particle physics, and high …

Direct laser acceleration in underdense plasmas with multi-PW lasers: a path to high-charge, GeV-class electron bunches

R Babjak, L Willingale, A Arefiev, M Vranic - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electrons in underdense plasmas can provide
hundreds of nC of electrons accelerated to near-GeV energies using currently available …

Positron generation and acceleration in a self-organized photon collider enabled by an ultraintense laser pulse

K Sugimoto, Y He, N Iwata, IL Yeh, K Tangtartharakul… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We discovered a simple regime where a near-critical plasma irradiated by a laser of
experimentally available intensity can self-organize to produce positrons and accelerate …

Direct laser acceleration in varying plasma density profiles

R Babjak, B Martinez, M Krus, M Vranic - New Journal of Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Direct laser acceleration has proven to be an efficient source of high-charge electron
bunches and high brilliance x-rays. However, an analytical description of the acceleration in …

Signatures of linear Breit-Wheeler pair production in polarized collisions

Q Zhao, L Tang, F Wan, BC Liu, RY Liu, RZ Yang… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The polarization characteristics of the linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) pair-production process in
polarized γ γ colliders have been investigated via our developed spin-resolved binary …

Angle-dependent pair production in the polarized two-photon Breit-Wheeler process

Q Zhao, YX Wu, M Ababekri, ZP Li, L Tang, JX Li - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The advent of laser-driven high-intensity γ-photon beams has opened up new opportunities
for designing advanced photon-photon colliders. Such colliders have the potential to …

Radiation-dominated injection of positrons generated by the nonlinear Breit–Wheeler process into a plasma channel

D Maslarova, B Martinez, M Vranic - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Plasma acceleration is considered a prospective technology for building a compact multi-
TeV electron–positron collider in the future. The challenge of this endeavor is greater for …

From linear to nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in laser-solid interactions

HH Song, WM Wang, M Chen, ZM Sheng - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
During the ultraintense laser interaction with solids (overdense plasmas), the competition
between two possible quantum electrodynamics (QED) mechanisms responsible for e±pair …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of Narrow Beams of Ultrarelativistic Positrons (Electrons) in the Breit–Wheeler Resonant Process Modified by the Field of a Strong …

SP Roshchupkin, VD Serov, VV Dubov - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The resonant external field-assisted Breit–Wheeler process (Oleinik resonances) for strong
electromagnetic fields with intensities that are less than the critical Schwinger field that has …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of collimated vortex gamma-rays from intense poincaré beam–plasma interaction

D Younis, B Hafizi, DF Gordon - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We report on numerical calculations in which a multi-petawatt γ-ray beam is generated using
a novel configuration based on fully structured light irradiating an overdense plasma …