Photon polarization effects in polarized electron-positron pair production in a strong laser field
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| author | Dai, Ya-Nan Shen, Bai-Fei Li, Jian-Xing Shaisultanov, Rashid Hatsagortsyan, Karen Z. Keitel, Christoph H. Chen, Yue-Yue |
| author_facet | Dai, Ya-Nan Shen, Bai-Fei Li, Jian-Xing Shaisultanov, Rashid Hatsagortsyan, Karen Z. Keitel, Christoph H. Chen, Yue-Yue |
| contents | Deep understanding of photon polarization impact on pair production is essential for the efficient creation of laser driven polarized positron beams, and demands a complete description of polarization effects in strong-field QED processes. We investigate, employing fully polarization resolved Monte Carlo simulations, the correlated photon and electron (positron) polarization effects in multiphoton Breit-Wheeler pair production process during the interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating elliptically polarized laser pulse. We showed that the polarization of e^-e^+ pairs is degraded by 35\%, when the polarization of the intermediate photon is resolved, accompanied with an approximately 13\% decrease of the pair yield. Moreover, the polarization direction of energetic positrons in small angle region is reversed, which originates from the pair production of hard photons with polarization parallel with electric field. |
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| spellingShingle | Photon polarization effects in polarized electron-positron pair production in a strong laser field Dai, Ya-Nan Shen, Bai-Fei Li, Jian-Xing Shaisultanov, Rashid Hatsagortsyan, Karen Z. Keitel, Christoph H. Chen, Yue-Yue Plasma Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Deep understanding of photon polarization impact on pair production is essential for the efficient creation of laser driven polarized positron beams, and demands a complete description of polarization effects in strong-field QED processes. We investigate, employing fully polarization resolved Monte Carlo simulations, the correlated photon and electron (positron) polarization effects in multiphoton Breit-Wheeler pair production process during the interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating elliptically polarized laser pulse. We showed that the polarization of e^-e^+ pairs is degraded by 35\%, when the polarization of the intermediate photon is resolved, accompanied with an approximately 13\% decrease of the pair yield. Moreover, the polarization direction of energetic positrons in small angle region is reversed, which originates from the pair production of hard photons with polarization parallel with electric field. |
| title | Photon polarization effects in polarized electron-positron pair production in a strong laser field |
| topic | Plasma Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04996 |