Physics – Accelerator Physics
Scientific paper
2010-08-27
Phys.Rev.Lett.103:013001, 2011
Physics
Accelerator Physics
4 pages; RevTeX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.013001
Usually, photons are described by plane waves with a definite 4-momentum. In addition to plane-wave photons, "twisted photons" have recently entered the field of modern laser optics; these are coherent superpositions of plane waves with a defined projection hbar*m of the orbital angular momentum onto the propagation axis, where m is integer. In this paper, we show that it is possible to produce high-energy twisted photons by Compton backscattering of twisted laser photons off ultra-relativistic electrons. Such photons may be of interest for experiments related to the excitation and disintegration of atoms and nuclei, and for studying the photo-effect and pair production off nuclei in previously unexplored experimental regimes.
Jentschura Ulrich D.
Serbo Valery G.
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