All-optical quasi-monoenergetic GeV positron bunch generation by twisted laser fields

oleh: Jie Zhao, Yan-Ting Hu, Yu Lu, Hao Zhang, Li-Xiang Hu, Xing-Long Zhu, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Ion Cristian Edmond Turcu, Alexander Pukhov, Fu-Qiu Shao, Tong-Pu Yu

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01

Deskripsi

The advent of petawatt lasers has reignited interest in the generation of positrons, since they could provide enough energy for practical applications. Here, an all-optical method for the generation of short, energetic positron beams are described numerically.