Fully polarized Compton scattering in plane waves and its polarization transfer

Tang Suo; Xin Yu; Wen Meng; Bake Mamat Ali; Xie Baisong

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Tang Suo, Xin Yu, Wen Meng, Bake Mamat Ali, Xie Baisong. Fully polarized Compton scattering in plane waves and its polarization transfer[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(3): 037204. doi: 10.1063/5.0196125

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Tang Suo, Xin Yu, Wen Meng, Bake Mamat Ali, Xie Baisong. Fully polarized Compton scattering in plane waves and its polarization transfer[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(3): 037204. doi: 10.1063/5.0196125

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Fully polarized Compton scattering in plane waves and its polarization transfer

doi: 10.1063/5.0196125

Tang Suo^1
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Xin Yu^1
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Wen Meng^2
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Bake Mamat Ali^{3
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Xie Baisong^4
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College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266100, China
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Department of Physics, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
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Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Solid State Physics and Devices, School of Physics Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
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Key Laboratory of Beam Technology of the Ministry of Education, and College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

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Corresponding author: a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: mabake@xju.edu.cn
Received Date: 2024-01-05
Accepted Date: 2024-03-06

Available Online: 2024-05-01

Publish Date: 2024-05-01

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Fully polarized Compton scattering from a beam of spin-polarized electrons is investigated in plane-wave backgrounds in a broad intensity region from the perturbative to the nonperturbative regimes. In the perturbative regime, polarized linear Compton scattering is considered for investigating polarization transfer from a single laser photon to a scattered photon, and in the high-intensity region, the polarized locally monochromatic approximation and locally constant field approximation are established and are employed to study polarization transfer from an incoming electron to a scattered photon. The numerical results suggest an appreciable improvement of about 10% in the scattering probability in the intermediate-intensity region if the electron’s longitudinal spin is parallel to the laser rotation. The longitudinal spin of the incoming electron can be transferred to the scattered photon with an efficiency that increases with laser intensity and collisional energy. For collision between an optical laser with frequency ∼1 eV and a 10 GeV electron, this polarization transfer efficiency can increase from about 20% in the perturbative regime to about 50% in the nonperturbative regime for scattered photons with relatively high energy.

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