• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041003
Corpus ID: 55569348

Ultrabright GeV Photon Source via Controlled Electromagnetic Cascades in Laser-Dipole Waves

@article{Gonoskov2017UltrabrightGP,
  title={Ultrabright GeV Photon Source via Controlled Electromagnetic Cascades in Laser-Dipole Waves},
  author={A. Gonoskov and A. Bashinov and S. Bastrakov and E. Efimenko and A. Ilderton and A. Kim and M. Marklund and I. Meyerov and A. Muraviev and A. Sergeev},
  journal={Physical Review X},
  year={2017},
  volume={7},
  pages={041003}
}

• A. Gonoskov, A. Bashinov, +7 authors A. Sergeev
• Published 2017
• Physics
• Physical Review X

Electromagnetic cascades have the potential to act as a high-energy photon source of unprecedented brightness. Such a source would offer new experimental possibilities in fundamental science, but in the cascade process radiation reaction and rapid electron-positron plasma production seemingly restrict the efficient production of photons to sub-GeV energies. Here, we show how to overcome these energetic restrictions and how to create a directed GeV photon source, with unique capabilities as… Expand