Promises and challenges of high-energy vortex states collisions
arXiv:2205.00412 · doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2022.103987
Abstract
Vortex states of photons, electrons, and other particles are non--plane-wave solutions of the corresponding wave equation with helicoidal wave fronts. These states possess an intrinsic orbital angular momentum with respect to the average propagation direction, which represents a new degree of freedom, previously unexplored in particle or nuclear collisions. Vortex states of photons, electrons, neutrons, and neutral atoms have been experimentally produced, albeit at low energies, and are being intensively explored. Anticipating future experimental progress, one can ask what additional insights on nuclei and particles one can gain once collisions of high-energy vortex states become possible. This review describes the present-day landscape of physics opportunities, experimental progress and suggestions relevant to vortex states in high energy collisions. The aim is to familiarize the community with this emergent cross-disciplinary topic and to provide a sufficiently complete literature coverage, highlighting some results and calculational techniques.
78 pages, invited review for Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. v2: extra references, clarifications and additions, the text matches the published version
References in corpus (46)
- Semiclassical Dynamics of Electron Wave Packet States with Phase Vortices
- Twisting of light around rotating black holes
- Electromagnetic excitation of the Delta(1232)-resonance
- Quantum entanglement of angular momentum states with quantum numbers up to 10010
- Spatio-temporal vortex beams and angular momentum
- Angular Momentum of Twisted Radiation from an Electron in Spiral Motion
- All the Fun of the FAIR: Fundamental physics at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research
- Measurement of Elastic pp Scattering at = 8 TeV in the Coulomb-Nuclear Interference Region - Determination of the -Parameter and the Total Cross-Section
- Atomic scale electron vortices for nanoresearch
- Colliding particles carrying non-zero orbital angular momentum
- Imaging the dynamics of free-electron Landau states
- Holographic generation of highly twisted electron beams
- Using electron vortex beams to determine chirality of crystals in transmission electron microscopy
- High orbital angular momentum harmonic generation
- Relativistic electron wave packets carrying angular momentum
- Twisted electron in a strong laser wave
- Vacuum Faraday effect for electrons
- Compton scattering of twisted light: angular distribution and polarization of scattered photons
- Elastic scattering of vortex electrons provides direct access to the Coulomb phase
- Scattering of wave packets with phases
- Scattering of twisted electron wave-packets by atoms in the Born approximation
- Expanding Nuclear Physics Horizons with the Gamma Factory
- Manipulating twisted electron beams
- Structured x-ray beams from twisted electrons by inverse Compton scattering of laser light
- Peculiar Rotation of Electron Vortex Beams
- Radiative recombination of twisted electrons with bare nuclei: going beyond the Born approximation
- Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture in Excited Ions
- Elastic scattering of twisted neutrons by nuclei
- Electric quadrupole moment and the tensor magnetic polarizability of twisted electrons and a potential for their measurements
- Modification of multipole transitions by twisted light
- Gaussian and Airy wave packets of massive particles with orbital angular momentum
- Siberian snake-like behavior for an orbital polarization of a beam of twisted (vortex) electrons
- Probing phase of a scattering amplitude beyond the plane-wave approximation
- Decay of the vortex muon
- Observability of the superkick effect within a quantum-field-theoretical approach
- Definitive Detection of Orbital Angular Momentum States in Neutrons by Spin-polarized He
- Electron vortex beams in a magnetic field and spin filter
- Bremsstrahlung from twisted electrons in the field of heavy nuclei
- Twisted light, a new tool for General Relativity and beyond
- Generation of relativistic positrons carrying intrinsic orbital angular momentum
- Construction of Dirac spinors for electron vortex beams in background electromagnetic fields
- Dynamical enhancement of nonparaxial effects in the electromagnetic field of a vortex electron
- Wave function of a photon produced in the resonant scattering of twisted light by relativistic ions
- Radiative recombination of twisted electrons with hydrogen-like heavy ions: Linear polarization of emitted photons
- Alternative method of generating gamma rays with orbital angular momentum
- Vortex particles in axially symmetric fields and applications of the quantum Busch theorem
Cited by in corpus (7)
- Shifting physics of vortex particles to higher energies via quantum entanglement
- Vortex photon generation via spin-to-orbital angular momentum transfer in nonlinear Compton scattering
- Generation of vortex particles via generalized measurements
- Evolution of the accelerated charged vortex particle in an inhomogeneous magnetic lens
- Threshold effects in high-energy vortex state collisions
- Scattering of plane-wave and twisted photons by helical media
- Production of twisted particles in heavy-ion collisions