Stochasticity in radiative polarization of ultrarelativistic electrons in an ultrastrong laser pulse

Stochastic effects in the spin (de)polarization of an ultrarelativistic electron beam during photon emissions in a counterpropagating ultrastrong focused laser pulse in the quantum radiation reaction regime are investigated. We employ a Monte Carlo method to describe the electron dynamics semiclassi...

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Main Authors: Ren-Tong Guo, Yu Wang, Rashid Shaisultanov, Feng Wan, Zhong-Feng Xu, Yue-Yue Chen, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Jian-Xing Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-09-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033483