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A laser-plasma accelerator driven by two-color relativistic femtosecond laser pulses
摘要： A typical laser-plasma accelerator (LPA) is driven by a single, ultrarelativistic laser pulse from terawatt- or petawatt-class lasers. Recently, there has been some theoretical work on the use of copropagating two-color laser pulses (CTLP) for LPA research. Here, we demonstrate the first LPA driven by CTLP where we observed substantial electron energy enhancements. Those results have been further confirmed in a practical application, where the electrons are used in a bremsstrahlung-based positron generation configuration, which led to a considerable boost in the positron energy as well. Numerical simulations suggest that the trailing second harmonic relativistic laser pulse is capable of sustaining the acceleration structure for much longer distances after the preceding fundamental pulse is depleted in the plasma. Therefore, our work confirms the merits of driving LPAs by two-color pulses and paves the way toward a downsizing of LPAs, making their potential applications in science and technology extremely attractive and affordable.
关键词： positron generation,electron energy enhancements,laser-plasma accelerator,two-color laser pulses,numerical simulations
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22
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Polarized Positron Beams via Intense Two-Color Laser Pulses
摘要： The generation of ultrarelativistic polarized positrons during the interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating two-color petawatt laser pulse is investigated theoretically. Our Monte Carlo simulation, based on a semiclassical model, incorporates photon emissions and pair productions, using spin-resolved quantum probabilities in the local constant field approximation, and describes the polarization of electrons and positrons for the pair production and photon emission processes, as well as the classical spin precession in between. The main reason for the polarization is shown to be the spin asymmetry of the pair production process in strong external fields, combined with the asymmetry of the two-color laser field. Employing a feasible scenario, we show that highly polarized positron beams, with a polarization degree of ζ ≈ 60%, can be produced in a femtosecond timescale, with a small angular divergence, ～74 mrad, and high density, ～1014 cm?3. The laser-driven polarized positron source raises hope for providing an alternative for high-energy physics studies.
关键词： polarized positron beams,ultrarelativistic electron beam,local constant field approximation,spin-resolved quantum probabilities,high-energy physics,Monte Carlo simulation,two-color laser pulses
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04