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 …

Spin-polarized proton beam generation from gas-jet targets by intense laser pulses

L Jin, M Wen, X Zhang, A Hützen, J Thomas… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
A method of generating spin-polarized proton beams from a gas jet by using a multipetawatt
laser is put forward. With currently available techniques of producing prepolarized …

Polarized proton acceleration in ultraintense laser interaction with near-critical-density plasmas

XF Li, P Gibbon, A Hützen, M Büscher, SM Weng… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
The production of polarized proton beams with multi-GeV energies in ultraintense laser
interaction with targets is studied with three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. A near …

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 …

JuSPARC-the jülich short-pulsed particle and radiation center

M Büscher, R Adam, C Tusche, A Hützen… - Journal of large-scale …, 2020 - jlsrf.org
JuSPARC, the Jülich Short-Pulsed Particle and Radiation Center, is a laser-driven facility to
enable research with short-pulsed photon and particle beams to be performed at the …

[HTML][HTML] Spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse injection scheme

Z Gong, MJ Quin, S Bohlen, CH Keitel… - Matter and Radiation …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Employing colliding-pulse injection has been shown to enable the generation of high-quality
electron beams from laser–plasma accelerators. Here, by using test particle simulations …

Energetic spin-polarized proton beams from two-stage coherent acceleration in laser-driven plasma

Z Gong, Y Shou, Y Tang, X Yan - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We propose a scheme to overcome the great challenge of polarization loss in spin-polarized
ion acceleration. When a petawatt laser pulse penetrates through a compound plasma …

Simulation of polarized beams from laser-plasma accelerators

A Hützen, J Thomas, A Lehrach… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The generation of polarized particle beams still relies on conventional particle accelerators,
which are typically very large in scale and budget. Concepts based on laser-driven …