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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

[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 …

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 …

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 …