5 papers
Brilliant multi-GeV Compton gamma-ray source seeded by a photon accelerator
Michael J. Quin, Stepan S. Bulanov, Arkady Gonoskov +4
High-brilliance sources of polarized gamma rays are widely sought after to pump and probe matter at subatomic length scales. However, existing accelerator facilities and optical la…
Observation of quantum effects on radiation reaction in strong fields
Eva E. Los, Elias Gerstmayr, Christopher Arran +28
Radiation reaction, the force experienced by an accelerated charge due to radiation emission, has long been the subject of extensive theoretical and experimental research. Experime…
Reaching extreme fields in laser-electron beam collisions with XUV laser light
Brandon K. Russell, Christopher P. Ridgers, Stepan S. Bulanov +8
Plasma-based particle accelerators promise to extend the revolutionary work performed with conventional particle accelerators to studies with smaller footprints, lower costs, and h…
Collision parameters needed to measure polarisation-dependent nonlinear pair creation
Mathias Samuelsson, Thomas G. Blackburn
Pair creation by a ray in a high-intensity electromagnetic field (the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process) is sensitive to the -ray polarisation. Here we study the stability r…
Nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production using polarized photons from inverse Compton scattering
Daniel Seipt, Mathias Samuelsson, Tom Blackburn
Observing multiphoton electron-positron pair production (the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process) requires high-energy rays to interact with strong electromagnetic fields. In orde…