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Mamat Ali BAKE, Suo TANG, Baisong XIE. Bright γ-ray source with large orbital angular momentum from the laser near-critical-plasma interaction[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2022, 24(9): 095001. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac67bd
Citation: Mamat Ali BAKE, Suo TANG, Baisong XIE. Bright γ-ray source with large orbital angular momentum from the laser near-critical-plasma interaction[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2022, 24(9): 095001. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac67bd

Bright γ-ray source with large orbital angular momentum from the laser near-critical-plasma interaction

  • We propose a new laser-plasma-based method to generate bright γ-rays carrying large orbital angular momentum by interacting a circularly polarized Laguerre–Gaussian laser pulse with a near-critical hydrogen plasma confined in an over-dense solid tube. In the first stage of the interaction, it is found via fully relativistic three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that high-energy helical electron beams with large orbital angular momentum are generated. In the second stage, this electron beam interacts with the laser pulse reflected from the plasma disc behind the solid tube, and helical γ beams are generated with the same topological structure as the electron beams. The results show that the electrons receive angular momentum from the drive laser, which can be further transferred to the γ photons during the interaction. The γ beam orbital angular momentum is strongly dependent on the laser topological charge l and laser intensity a0, which scales as L γ a 0 4. A short (duration of 5 fs) isolated helical γ beam with an angular momentum of -3.3 × 10-14 kg m2 s-1 is generated using the Laguerre–Gaussian laser pulse with l = 2. The peak brightness of the helical γ beam reaches 1.22 × 1024 photons s-1 mm-2 mrad-2 per 0.1% BW (at 10 MeV), and the laser-to-γ-ray angular momentum conversion rate is approximately 2.1%.
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