Attosecond gamma-ray pulses and angle-resolved-stochastic photon emission in the quantum-radiation-dominated regime (Conference Presentation)

Jianxing Li; Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan; Christoph H. Keitel

doi:10.1117/12.2271146

29 June 2017 Attosecond gamma-ray pulses and angle-resolved-stochastic photon emission in the quantum-radiation-dominated regime (Conference Presentation)

Jianxing Li, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Christoph H. Keitel

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Proceedings Volume 10241, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers III; 1024115 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2271146
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

We demonstrate the feasibility of generation of bright ultrashort gamma-ray pulses and the signatures of stochastic photon emission via the interaction of a relativistic electron bunch with a counterpropagating tightly-focused superstrong laser beam in the quantum-radiation-dominated regime. We consider the electron-laser interaction at near-reflection conditions when pronounced high-energy gamma-ray bursts arise in the backward-emission direction with respect to the initial motion of the electrons. The Compton scattering spectra of gamma-radiation are investigated using a semiclassical description for the electron dynamics in the laser field and a quantum electrodynamical description for the photon emission. We demonstrate the feasibility of ultrashort gamma-ray bursts of hundreds of attoseconds and of dozens of megaelectronvolt photon energies in the near-backwards direction of the initial electron motion. The tightly focused laser field structure and radiation reaction are shown to be responsible for such short gamma-ray bursts, which are independent of the durations of the electron bunch and of the laser pulse. Moreover, the quantum stochastic nature of the gamma-photon emission is exhibited in the angular distributions of the radiation and explained in an intuitive picture. Although, the visibility of the stochasticity signatures depends on the laser and electron beam parameters, the signatures are of a qualitative nature and robust. The stochasticity, a fundamental quantum property of photon emission, should thus be measurable rather straightforwardly with laser technology available in near future.

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Jianxing Li, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel "Attosecond gamma-ray pulses and angle-resolved-stochastic photon emission in the quantum-radiation-dominated regime (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10241, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers III, 1024115 (29 June 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2271146

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Gamma radiation

Pulsed laser operation

Stochastic processes

Compton scattering

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