New Journal of Physics (Jan 2021)
Single particle detection system for strong-field QED experiments
- F C Salgado,
- N Cavanagh,
- M Tamburini,
- D W Storey,
- R Beyer,
- P H Bucksbaum,
- Z Chen,
- A Di Piazza,
- E Gerstmayr,
- Harsh,
- E Isele,
- A R Junghans,
- C H Keitel,
- S Kuschel,
- C F Nielsen,
- D A Reis,
- C Roedel,
- G Sarri,
- A Seidel,
- C Schneider,
- U I Uggerhøj,
- J Wulff,
- V Yakimenko,
- C Zepter,
- S Meuren,
- M Zepf
Affiliations
- F C Salgado
- ORCiD
- Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena , Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany; Helmholtz-Institut Jena , Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
- N Cavanagh
- Queen’s University Belfast , University Road, BT7 1NN Belfast, United Kingdom
- M Tamburini
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik , Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- D W Storey
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, California 94025, United States of America
- R Beyer
- ORCiD
- Institute for Radiation Physics , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
- P H Bucksbaum
- Stanford PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
- Z Chen
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, California 94025, United States of America
- A Di Piazza
- ORCiD
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik , Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- E Gerstmayr
- Stanford PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
- Harsh
- Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena , Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany; Helmholtz-Institut Jena , Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
- E Isele
- Stanford PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
- A R Junghans
- ORCiD
- Institute for Radiation Physics , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
- C H Keitel
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik , Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- S Kuschel
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, University of Hamburg , Germany
- C F Nielsen
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University , 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
- D A Reis
- Stanford PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
- C Roedel
- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Technical University Darmstadt , Schlossgartenstr. 9, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
- G Sarri
- ORCiD
- Queen’s University Belfast , University Road, BT7 1NN Belfast, United Kingdom
- A Seidel
- Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena , Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany; Helmholtz-Institut Jena , Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
- C Schneider
- Institute for Radiation Physics , Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
- U I Uggerhøj
- ORCiD
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University , 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
- J Wulff
- Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena , Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany; Helmholtz-Institut Jena , Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
- V Yakimenko
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, California 94025, United States of America
- C Zepter
- Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena , Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany; Helmholtz-Institut Jena , Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
- S Meuren
- ORCiD
- Stanford PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States of America
- M Zepf
- Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena , Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany; Helmholtz-Institut Jena , Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac4283
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 24,
no. 1
p. 015002
Abstract
Measuring signatures of strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SF-QED) processes in an intense laser field is an experimental challenge: it requires detectors to be highly sensitive to single electrons and positrons in the presence of the typically very strong x-ray and γ -photon background levels. In this paper, we describe a particle detector capable of diagnosing single leptons from SF-QED interactions and discuss the background level simulations for the upcoming Experiment-320 at FACET-II (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory). The single particle detection system described here combines pixelated scintillation LYSO screens and a Cherenkov calorimeter. We detail the performance of the system using simulations and a calibration of the Cherenkov detector at the ELBE accelerator. Single 3 GeV leptons are expected to produce approximately 537 detectable photons in a single calorimeter channel. This signal is compared to Monte-Carlo simulations of the experiment. A signal-to-noise ratio of 18 in a single Cherenkov calorimeter detector is expected and a spectral resolution of 2% is achieved using the pixelated LYSO screens.
Keywords
- strong-field QED
- pair-creation
- single-particle detection
- Cherenkov calorimeter
- Breit–Wheeler process
