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Cracking open strong field quantum electrodynamics

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Left- In the proposed scheme for probing SF-QED with present-day or near-future lasers, a plasma mirror shaped by radiation pressure converts an intense laser pulse (red) into Doppler-boosted harmonics (purple) and focuses them on a secondary target, reaching extreme intensities. The dimensions involved are tens to hundreds of microns (millionths of a meter); the diameter of a human hair is a few to several tens of microns.

Right- Berkeley Lab’s key contribution was leading the development of the simulation code used for the research. In this simulation image, the intense Doppler-boosted light pulses (red and blue) plow through the solid target (gray), generating high-energy photons (orange) that decay into pairs of electrons (green) and positrons (purple) after further interaction with the incoming light pulses. Only photons that have not yet decayed into pairs are shown.

Credit- Luca Fedeli/CEA

A newly published theoretical and computer modeling study suggests that the world’s most powerful lasers might finally crack the elusive physics behind some of the most extreme phenomena in the universe—gamma ray bursts, pulsar magnetospheres, and more.

The international research team behind the study includes researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-LIDYL). They report their findings in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.

The research team was led by CEA’s Henri Vincenti, who proposed the main physical concept. Jean-Luc Vay and Andrew Myers, of Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP) Division and Computational Research Division, respectively, led development of the simulation code used for the research. (Vincenti previously worked at Berkeley Lab as a Marie Curie Research Fellow and remains an ATAP affiliate and frequent collaborator.) The theoretical and numerical work was led by Luca Fedeli from Vincenti’s team at CEA.

The team’s modeling study shows that petawatt (PW)-class lasers—juiced to even higher intensities via light-matter interactions—might provide a key to unlock the mysteries of the strong-field (SF) regime of quantum electrodynamics (QED). A petawatt is 1 times ten to the fifteenth power (that is, followed by 15 zeroes), or a quadrillion watts. The output of today’s most powerful lasers is measured in petawatts.

“This is a powerful demonstration of how advanced simulation of complex systems can enable new paths for discovery science by integrating multiple physics processes—in this case, the laser interaction with a target and subsequent production of particles in a second target,” said ATAP Division Director Cameron Geddes.

Lasers probe some of nature’s most jealously guarded secrets

While QED is a cornerstone of modern physics that has withstood the rigor of experiment over many decades, probing SF-QED requires electromagnetic fields of an intensity many orders of magnitude beyond those normally available on Earth.

Researchers have tried side routes to SF-QED, such as using powerful particle beams from accelerators to observe particle interactions with the strong fields that are naturally present in some aligned crystals.

For a more direct approach, the highest electromagnetic fields available in a laboratory are delivered by PW-class lasers. A 10-PW laser (the world’s most powerful at this time), focused down to a few microns, can reach intensities close to 1023 watts per square centimeter. The associated electric field values can be as high as 1014 volts per meter. Yet studying SF-QED requires even higher field amplitudes than that—orders of magnitude beyond what can be achieved with those lasers.

To break this barrier, researchers have planned to call on powerful electron beams, accessible at large accelerator or laser facilities. When a high-power laser pulse collides with a relativistic electron beam, the laser field amplitude seen by electrons in their rest frame can be increased by orders of magnitude, giving access to new SF-QED regimes.

Though such methods are challenging experimentally, as they call for the synchronization in space and time of a high-power laser pulse and a relativistic electron beam at femtosecond and micron scales, a few such experiments have been successfully conducted, and several more are planned around the world at PW-class laser facilities.

Cracking Open Strong Field Quantum Electrodynamics
The successive interaction of a high-power laser pulse (red and blue) with a plasma mirror (not shown) and a secondary target (translucent light gray) could create the conditions to probe Strong Field Quantum Electrodynamics effects that are far beyond current experimental capabilities. Credit- Luca Fedeli/CEA

Using a moving, curved plasma mirror for a direct look

The research team proposed a complementary method- a compact scheme that can directly boost the intensity of existing high-power laser beams. It is based on a well-known concept of light intensification and on their theoretical and computer modeling studies.

The scheme consists of boosting the intensity of a PW laser pulse with a relativistic plasma mirror. Such a mirror can be formed when an ultrahigh intensity laser beam hits an optically polished solid target. Due to the high laser amplitude, the solid target is fully ionized, forming a dense plasma that reflects the incident light. At the same time the reflecting surface is actually moved by the intense laser field. As a result of that motion, part of the reflected laser pulse is temporally compressed and converted to a shorter wavelength by the Doppler effect.

Radiation pressure from the laser gives this plasma mirror a natural curvature. This focuses the Doppler-boosted beam to much smaller spots, which can lead to extreme intensity gains—more than three orders of magnitude—where the Doppler-boosted laser beam is focused. The simulations indicate that a secondary target at this focus would give clear SF-QED signatures in actual experiments.

Berkeley Lab integral to international team-science effort

The study drew upon Berkeley Lab’s diverse scientific resources, including its WarpX simulation code, which was developed for modeling advanced particle accelerators under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project. The novel capabilities of WarpX allowed the modeling of the intensity boost and the interaction of the boosted pulse with the target. All previous simulation studies had only been able to explore proof-of-principle configurations.

Experimental verification of the research team’s methodology for probing SF-QED might come from the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA), a petawatt-class laser with a repetition rate, unprecedented at that power, of a pulse per second. Now under construction is a second beamline that might also contribute to experimental studies of SF-QED by Berkeley Lab researchers. A proposed new laser, kBELLA, could enable future high rate studies by bringing high intensity at a kilohertz repetition rate to the facility.

The discovery via WarpX of novel high-intensity laser-plasma interaction regimes could have benefits far beyond ideas for exploring SF-QED. These include the better understanding and design of plasma-based accelerators such as those being developed at BELLA. More compact and less expensive than conventional accelerators of similar energy, they could eventually be game-changers in applications that range from extending the reach of high-energy physics and of penetrating photon sources for precision imaging, to implanting ions in semiconductors, treating cancer, developing new pharmaceuticals, and more.

“It is gratifying to be able to contribute to the validation of new, potentially very impactful ideas via the use of our novel algorithms and codes,” Vay said of the Berkeley Lab team’s contributions to the study. “This is part of the beauty of collaborative team science.”


The realization of curved relativistic mirrors to reflect high-power laser pulses


More information-
L. Fedeli et al, Probing Strong-Field QED with Doppler-Boosted Petawatt-Class Lasers, Physical Review Letters (2021). DOI- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.114801

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