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 …

[HTML][HTML] Kinetic theory for spin-polarized relativistic plasmas

D Seipt, AGR Thomas - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The investigation of spin and polarization effects in ultra-high intensity laser–plasma and
laser–beam interactions has become an emergent topic in high-field science recently. In this …

Generation of ultrarelativistic vortex leptons with large orbital angular momenta

M Ababekri, JL Zhou, RT Guo, YZ Ren, YH Kou… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We put forward a novel method for generating ultrarelativistic vortex positrons and electrons
with intrinsic orbital angular momenta (OAM) through nonlinear Breit-Wheeler (NBW) …

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 …

Control of electron beam polarization in the bubble regime of laser-wakefield acceleration

HC Fan, XY Liu, XF Li, JF Qu, Q Yu, Q Kong… - New Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron beam polarization in the bubble regime of the interaction between a high-intensity
laser and a longitudinally pre-polarized plasma is investigated by means of the Thomas …

Trapping and acceleration of spin-polarized positrons from photon splitting in wakefields

WY Liu, K Xue, F Wan, M Chen, JX Li, F Liu… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Energetic spin-polarized positrons are very useful for forefront research such as e− e+
collider physics, but it is still quite challenging to generate such sources. Here, we propose …

Highly polarized energetic electrons via intense laser-irradiated tailored targets

X Shen, Z Gong, KZ Hatsagortsyan, CH Keitel - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
A method for the generation of ultrarelativistic electron beams with high spin polarization is
put forward, where a tightly focused linearly polarized ultraintense laser pulse interacts with …

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 …

On the robustness of spin polarization for magnetic vortex accelerated proton bunches in density down-ramps

L Reichwein, A Hützen, M Büscher… - Plasma physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the effect of density down-ramps on the acceleration of ions via magnetic
vortex acceleration in a near-critical density gas target by means of particle-in-cell …