TY  - JOUR
AU  - Abramowicz, Halina
AU  - Acosta, Uwe Hernandez
AU  - Altarelli, Massimo
AU  - Assmann, Ralph
AU  - Bai, Zhaoyu
AU  - Behnke, Ties
AU  - Benhammou, Yan
AU  - Blackburn, Thomas
AU  - Boogert, Stewart
AU  - Borysov, Oleksandr
AU  - Borysova, Maryna
AU  - Brinkmann, Reinhard
AU  - Bruschi, Marco
AU  - Burkart, Florian
AU  - Buesser, Karsten
AU  - Cavanagh, Niall
AU  - Davidi, Oz
AU  - Decking, Winfried
AU  - Dosselli, Umberto
AU  - Elkina, Nina
AU  - Fedotov, Alexander
AU  - Firlej, Miroslaw
AU  - Fiutowski, Tomasz
AU  - Fleck, Kyle
AU  - Gostkin, Mikhail
AU  - Grojean, Christophe
AU  - Hallford, John Andrew
AU  - Harsh, Harsh
AU  - Hartin, Anthony
AU  - Heinemann, Beate
AU  - Heinzl, Tom
AU  - Helary, Louis
AU  - Hoffmann, Marius
AU  - Huang, Shan
AU  - Huang, Xinhe
AU  - Idzik, Marek
AU  - Ilderton, Anton
AU  - Jacobs, Ruth Magdalena
AU  - Kaempfer, Burkhard
AU  - King, Ben
AU  - Lakhno, Hlib
AU  - Levanon, Assaf
AU  - Levy, Aharon
AU  - Levy, Itamar
AU  - List, Jenny
AU  - Lohmann, Wolfgang
AU  - Ma, Teng
AU  - Macleod, Alexander John
AU  - Malka, Victor
AU  - Meloni, Federico
AU  - Mironov, Arseny
AU  - Morandin, Mauro
AU  - Moron, Jakub
AU  - Negodin, Evgueni
AU  - Perez, Gilad
AU  - Pomerantz, Ishay
AU  - Poeschl, Roman
AU  - Prasad, Rajendra
AU  - Quere, Fabien
AU  - Ringwald, Andreas
AU  - Roedel, Christian
AU  - Rykovanov, Sergey
AU  - Salgado, Felipe
AU  - Santra, Arka
AU  - Sarri, Gianluca
AU  - Saevert, Alexander
AU  - Sbrizzi, Antonio
AU  - Schmitt, Stefan
AU  - Schramm, Ulrich
AU  - Schuwalow, Sergej
AU  - Seipt, Daniel
AU  - Shaimerdenova, Leila
AU  - Shchedrolosiev, Mykyta
AU  - Skakunov, Maxim
AU  - Soreq, Yotam
AU  - Streeter, Matthew
AU  - Swientek, Krzysztof
AU  - Hod, Noam Tal
AU  - Tang, Suo
AU  - Teter, Thomas
AU  - Thoden, Daniel
AU  - Titov, Alexander
AU  - Tolbanov, Oleg
AU  - Torgrimsson, Greger
AU  - Tyazhev, Anton
AU  - Wing, Matthew
AU  - Zanetti, Marco
AU  - Zarubin, Andrei
AU  - Zeil, Karl
AU  - Zepf, Matt
AU  - Zhemchukov, Aleksey
TI  - Conceptual Design Report for the LUXE Experiment
JO  - European physical journal special topics
VL  - 230
IS  - 11
SN  - 1951-6355
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Springer
M1  - PUBDB-2021-00893
M1  - arXiv:2102.02032
M1  - DESY-21-016
SP  - 2445 - 2560
PY  - 2021
AB  - This Conceptual Design Report describes LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment), an experimental campaign that aims to combine the high-quality and high-energy electron beam of the European XFEL with a powerful laser to explore the uncharted terrain of quantum electrodynamics characterised by both high energy and high intensity. We will reach this hitherto inaccessible regime of quantum physics by analysing high-energy electron-photon and photon-photon interactions in the extreme environment provided by an intense laser focus. The physics background and its relevance are presented in the science case which in turn leads to, and justifies, the ensuing plan for all aspects of the experiment: Our choice of experimental parameters allows (i) effective field strengths to be probed at and beyond the Schwinger limit and (ii) a precision to be achieved that permits a detailed comparison of the measured data with calculations. In addition, the high photon flux predicted will enable a sensitive search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The initial phase of the experiment will employ an existing 40 TW laser, whereas the second phase will utilise an upgraded laser power of 350 TW. All expectations regarding the performance of the experimental set-up as well as the expected physics results are based on detailed numerical simulations throughout.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000695743700001
DO  - DOI:10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00249-z
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/455015
ER  -