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 …

Ultrahigh-density spin-polarized hydrogen isotopes from the photodissociation of hydrogen halides: new applications for laser-ion acceleration, magnetometry, and …

AK Spiliotis, M Xygkis, ME Koutrakis, K Tazes… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Recently, our group produced spin-polarized hydrogen (SPH) atoms at densities of at least
1019 cm− 3 from the photodissociation of hydrogen halide molecules with circularly …

Polarized laser-wakefield-accelerated kiloampere electron beams

M Wen, M Tamburini, CH Keitel - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
High-flux polarized particle beams are of critical importance for the investigation of spin-
dependent processes, such as in searches of physics beyond the standard model, as well …

Polarized electron-beam acceleration driven by vortex laser pulses

Y Wu, L Ji, X Geng, Q Yu, N Wang, B Feng… - New Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a new approach based on an all-optical set-up for generating relativistic
polarized electron beams via vortex Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser-driven wakefield …

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 …

Polarized electron acceleration in beam-driven plasma wakefield based on density down-ramp injection

Y Wu, L Ji, X Geng, Q Yu, N Wang, B Feng, Z Guo… - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
We investigate the precession of electron spins during beam-driven plasma-wakefield
acceleration based on density down-ramp injection by means of full three-dimensional (3D) …

Colliding pulse injection of polarized electron bunches in a laser-plasma accelerator

S Bohlen, Z Gong, MJ Quin, M Tamburini, K Põder - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Highly polarized, multi-kiloampere-current electron bunches from compact laser-plasma
accelerators are desired for numerous applications. Current proposals to produce these …

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 …

Generation of polarized proton beams with gaseous targets from CO2-laser-driven collisionless shock acceleration

X Yan, Y Wu, X Geng, H Zhang, B Shen, L Ji - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We propose obtaining polarized proton beams based on CO 2-laser-driven collisionless
shock acceleration (CSA) of the pre-polarized HCl gas. By tailoring the density profile of 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 …