LUXE: A new experiment to study non-perturbative QED in $e^{-}$-laser and $\gamma$-laser collisions

Autor:	Jacobs, Ruth
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	High Energy Physics - Experiment Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	The LUXE experiment (Laser Und XFEL Experiment) is a new experiment in planning at DESY Hamburg using the electron beam of the European XFEL. LUXE is intended to study collisions between a high-intensity optical laser and up to 16.5 GeV electrons from the Eu.XFEL electron beam, or, alternatively, high-energy secondary photons. The physics objective of LUXE are processes of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) at the strong-field frontier, where QED is non-perturbative. This manifests itself in the creation of physical electron-positron pairs from the QED vacuum. LUXE intends to measure the positron production rate in a new physics regime at an unprecedented laser intensity. Parasitically, the high-intensity Compton photon beam of LUXE can be used to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Comment: Submission to SciPost Proceedings, fixed typos and corrected author affiliation
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10026 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv