Polarized quantum effects in countable signals from intense laser - electron beam interactions
Abstract
We investigate the feasibility of precision counting experiments based on laser-electron beam interactions to verify strong-field quantum electrodynamic effects, with particular emphasis on the stochastic nature of photon emission, photon polarization, and spin asymmetry. A precise Monte-Carlo model is developed using photon packets with multi-dimensional phase-space weighting, hierarchical-mesh cumulative distribution functions, and a variable time-step method. This model quantitatively reproduces the highest edge of the photon energy spectrum and the positron yield in the previous SLAC E-144 experiment. The quantized radiation back-reaction determines the highest edge tail and thus the positron yield for higher laser intensities. The spin asymmetry in photon emission and spin flip determines photon polarization in the high-energy tail, while that in pair production can be observed through the large-angle positron scattering. Our simulations predict that these effects depend on the combination of the electron-beam energy and the laser intensity, and that they could be verified in future ELI-NP experiments using sub-GeV electron beams and optical lasers with intensities ~10^22W/cm2.
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BibTeX
@misc{moritaka2026polarized,
title = {{Polarized quantum effects in countable signals from intense laser - electron beam interactions}},
author = {Toseo Moritaka and Kensuke Homma and Kazunori Itakura},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.01494},
eprint = {2609.01494},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01494},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Polarized quantum effects in countable signals from intense laser - electron beam interactions
AU - Toseo Moritaka
AU - Kensuke Homma
AU - Kazunori Itakura
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/11
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.01494
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01494
AB - We investigate the feasibility of precision counting experiments based on laser-electron beam interactions to verify strong-field quantum electrodynamic effects, with particular emphasis on the stochastic nature of photon emission, photon polarization, and spin asymmetry. A precise Monte-Carlo model is developed using photon packets with multi-dimensional phase-space weighting, hierarchical-mesh cumulative distribution functions, and a variable time-step method. This model quantitatively reproduces the highest edge of the photon energy spectrum and the positron yield in the previous SLAC E-144 experiment. The quantized radiation back-reaction determines the highest edge tail and thus the positron yield for higher laser intensities. The spin asymmetry in photon emission and spin flip determines photon polarization in the high-energy tail, while that in pair production can be observed through the large-angle positron scattering. Our simulations predict that these effects depend on the combination of the electron-beam energy and the laser intensity, and that they could be verified in future ELI-NP experiments using sub-GeV electron beams and optical lasers with intensities ~10^22W/cm2.
ER -