Pulse envelope effect on nonlinear Compton scattering in electron-laser collisions
arXiv:2012.05920 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.103.036018
Abstract
Nonlinear Compton scattering is calculated for the collision of an electron with a plane wave pulse. A mid infra-red (IR) peak arises in the photon spectrum due to long-range interference associated with the pulse envelope. The case of a flat-top pulse is studied as a toy model for pulse envelope effects and reduced to two final-state momentum integrations; the case of a sine-squared pulse is studied numerically. A perturbative expansion in charge-field coupling reveals that already at intermediate intensities, many orders are required to correctly capture the structure of the mid-IR peak. By regularising the classical result, it is shown that the mid-IR peak is due to plane-wave ponderomotive effects on the pulse envelope. Finally, it is shown that the mid-IR peak can be isolated using energy, angle and polarisation filters.
12 pages, 8 figures
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