Electron Laser-Pulse Scattering.
Abstract
General formulae are derived for the computation of scattering amplitudes for electron-laser pulse processes. Standard Feynman-Dyson S-matrix techniques were used except that the Furry interaction picture was substituted for the Dirac interaction picture. The laser pulse is described quantum-mechanically as a coherent state wave-packet. The electron is represented by wave-packet solutions of the Dirac equation in the case of scattering boundary conditions, or by Volkov wave-packets when nonscattering boundary conditions are considered. The scattering amplitudes for the processes of stimulated Compton scattering, inverse bremsstrahlung, and pair production in a laser pulse are given for scattering and nonscattering boundary conditions. The existence of entirely new, quantum-electrodynamical, nonlinear corrections for any electron-laser pulse process is discussed.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974PhDT........94S
- Keywords:
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- Physics: High Energy;
- Laser Applications;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Scattering Amplitude;
- Wave Scattering;
- Compton Effect;
- Dirac Equation;
- Quantum Theory;
- Wave Packets;
- Lasers and Masers