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 …

Generation of polarized particle beams at relativistic laser intensities

M Büscher, A Hützen, L Ji, A Lehrach - High power laser science and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The acceleration of polarized electrons, positrons, protons and ions in strong laser and
plasma fields is a very attractive option for obtaining polarized beams in the multi-mega …

Scaling laws for the depolarization time of relativistic particle beams in strong fields

J Thomas, A Hützen, A Lehrach, A Pukhov, L Ji… - … review accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
The acceleration of polarized electrons and protons in strong laser and plasma fields is a
very attractive option to obtain polarized beams in the GeV range. We investigate the …

Acceleration of spin-polarized proton beams via two parallel laser pulses

L Reichwein, A Pukhov, M Büscher - Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 2022 - APS
We present a setup for highly polarized proton beams using two parallel propagating laser
pulses that have a carrier envelope phase difference of π. This mechanism is examined …

Polarized proton beams from laser-induced plasmas

A Hützen, J Thomas, J Böker, R Engels… - High Power Laser …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We report on the concept of an innovative source to produce polarized proton/deuteron
beams of a kinetic energy up to several GeV from a laser-driven plasma accelerator. Spin …

Plasma acceleration of polarized particle beams

L Reichwein, Z Gong, C Zheng, L Ji, A Pukhov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Spin-polarized particle beams are of interest for applications like deep-inelastic scattering,
eg to gain further understanding of the proton's nuclear structure. With the advent of high …

Enhanced polarized proton acceleration driven by femtosecond laser pulses irradiating a micro-structured solid–gas target

X Yan, Y Wu, X Geng, H Zhang… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Herein, we propose a scheme based on collision-less shock acceleration (CSA) involving
the use of composite targets comprising a micro-structured foil and a pre-polarized gas for …

Spin-polarized proton acceleration by an intense laser pulse with a foil-gas target

X Yan, L Ji - Laser Physics Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A novel scheme for obtaining high-energy polarized proton beams by the interaction of a
femtosecond laser pulse with a foil-gas composite target has been proposed. The carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Depolarization of spin-polarized hydrogen via collisions with chlorine atoms at ultrahigh density

AK Spiliotis, M Xygkis, ME Koutrakis, D Sofikitis… - Chemical Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, the production of ultrahigh-density (∼ 10 19 cm− 3) spin-polarized deuterium
(SPD) atoms was demonstrated, from the photodissociation of deuterium iodide, but the …

[PDF][PDF] Particle acceleration in plasmas: non-linear wakefields for leptons and magnetic vortices for spin-polarized protons

L Reichwein - 2022 - docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de
Plasma-based accelerators are considered a promising alternative to large and expensive
conventional accelerator structures since the higher field strengths that can be applied allow …