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http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png LUXE: A new experiment to study non-perturbative QED in $e^-$-laser and $\gamma$-laser collisions

Jacobs, R. M.DESY* ; LUXE Collaboration (Collaboration author)

2022

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2022-02808

Report No.: arXiv:2206.00403

Abstract: The LUXE experiment (Laser Und XFEL Experiment) is a new experiment in planning at DESY Hamburg using the electron beam of the European XFEL. At LUXE, the aim is to study collisions between a high-intensity optical laser and up to $16.5\,\textrm{GeV}$ electrons from the Eu.XFEL electron beam, or, alternatively, high-energy secondary photons. The physics objectives of LUXE are to measure 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. Additionally, the high-intensity Compton photon beam of LUXE can be used to search for physics beyond the Standard Model.}

Keyword(s): quantum electrodynamics: nonperturbative ; electron: beam ; laser: yield ; photon: beam ; positron: production ; photon: secondary ; new physics: search for ; strong field ; optical ; electron: pair production ; proposed experiment

Note: Contribution to the 2022 EW session of the 56th Rencontres de Moriond. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2205.06096

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Bereichsreferent FHR (FHR)
2. Technol. zukünft. Teilchenph. Experim. (FTX)

Research Program(s):

1. 611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF4-611) (POF4-611)

Experiment(s):

1. Laser Und XFEL Experiment

Appears in the scientific report 2022

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