Journal article
Letter of Intent for the LUXE Experiment
arXiv, 1909.00860
24/Jun/2020
Abstract
This Letter of Intent describes LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experiment that aims to use the high-quality and high-energy electron beam of the European XFEL and a powerful laser. The scientific objective of the experiment is to study quantum electrodynamics processes in the regime of strong fields. High-energy electrons, accelerated by the European XFEL linear accelerator, and high-energy photons, produced via Bremsstrahlung of those beam electrons, colliding with a laser beam shall experience an electric field up to three times larger than the Schwinger critical field (the field at which the vacuum itself is expected to become unstable and spark with spontaneous creation of electron-positron pairs) and access a new regime of quantum physics. The processes to be investigated, which include nonlinear Compton scattering and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production, are relevant to a variety of phenomena in Nature, e.g. in the areas of astrophysics and collider physics and complement recent results in atomic physics. The setup requires in particular the extraction of a minute fraction of the electron bunches from the European XFEL accelerator, the installation of a powerful laser with sophisticated diagnostics, and an array of precision detectors optimised to measure electrons, positrons and photons. Physics sensitivity projections based on simulations are also provided.
Details
- Title
- Letter of Intent for the LUXE Experiment
- Creators
- H. Abramowicz (null) - Tel Aviv UniversityM. Altarelli (null) - MaxR. Aßmann (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYT. Behnke (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYY. Benhammou (null) - Tel Aviv UniversityO. Borysov (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYM. Borysova (null) - National Academy of Sciences of UkraineR. Brinkmann (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYF. Burkart (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYK. Büßer (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYO. Davidi (null) - 972WIS_INST___88W. Decking (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYN. Elkina (null) - Helmholtz Institute JenaH. Harsh (null) - Helmholtz Institute JenaA. Hartin (null) - University College London (United Kingdom, London) - UCLI. Hartl (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYB. Heinemann (null) - University of FreiburgT. Heinzl (null) - University of PlymouthN. TalHod (null) - 972WIS_INST___88M. Hoffmann (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYA. Ilderton (null) - University of PlymouthB. King (null) - University of PlymouthA. Levy (null) - Tel Aviv UniversityJ. List (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYA. R. Maier (null) - Universität HamburgE. Negodin (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYG. Perez (null) - 972WIS_INST___88I. Pomerantz (null) - Tel Aviv UniversityA. Ringwald (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYC. Rödel (null) - Helmholtz Institute JenaM. Saimpert (null) - Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany, Hamburg) - DESYF. Salgado (null) - Helmholtz Institute JenaG. Sarri (null) - Queen's University BelfastI. Savoray (null) - 972WIS_INST___88T. Teter (null) - Helmholtz Institute JenaM. Wing (null) - University College London (United Kingdom, London) - UCLM. Zepf (null) - Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- arXiv, 1909.00860
- Number of pages
- 33
- Language
- English
- Grant note
- We thank the members of various DESY groups without whom this work would not have been possible: MVS (vacuum modification), MIN (kicker magnet, beam dump), D3 (radio protection), MEA (installation and magnets), ZM1 (construction), MKK (power and water), IPP (CAD integration). We also thank the DESY directorate for funding this work through the DESY Strategy Fund. The work by Dr. Beate Heinemann was in part funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under Germany‘s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2121 “Quantum Universe" – 390833306. The work by Dr. A. Hartin and Dr. M. Wing was supported by the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant RPG-2017-143 in the UK. The work of Dr. Gilad Perez is supported by grants from the BSF, ERC-COG, ISF, Minerva, and the Segre Research Award. Dr. Gianluca Sarri wishes to acknowledge support from EPSRC (grant Nos: EP/N027175/1 and EP/P010059/1). This work has benefited from computing services provided by the German National Analysis Facility (NAF).
- Record Identifier
- 993266951703596
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