Fundamental Physics with
X-Ray Free Electron Lasers
X-ray free electron lasers (FELs) have been/are being constructed both at SLAC in the form
of the so-called Linac Coherent Light Source as well as in Hamburg at DESY in the form of the European XFEL
XFEL.
In addition to the immediate applications in condensed matter physics, chemistry, material science,
and structural biology, X-ray FELs may be employed also to study some physics issues of fundamental nature.
In this context, one may mention the boiling
(non-perturbative spontaneous pair creation in an external field) and the polarization
(magnetic birefringence) of the vacuum, the search for axions and other very
weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs).
[Publications |
Reviews |
Talks]
- R. Rabadan, A. Ringwald, K. Sigurdson,
Photon Regeneration from Pseudoscalars at X-ray Laser Facilities,
hep-ph/0511103,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 110407.
- A. Ringwald,
Production and Detection of Very Light Bosons in the HERA Tunnel,
hep-ph/0306106,
Phys. Lett. B569 (2003) 51.
- A. Ringwald,
Pair Production from Vacuum at the Focus of an X-Ray Free Electron Laser,
hep-ph/0103185,
Phys. Lett. B510 (2001) 107.
- A. Ringwald,
Axion interpretation of the PVLAS data?,
Proc. Ninth International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics,
TAUP 2005, Zaragoza, Spain, September 10-14, 2005
hep-ph/0511184.
- Boiling the Vacuum with an X-Ray Free Electron Laser,
to appear in: Proc. Workshop on Quantum Aspects of Beam Physics, Hiroshima, Japan, January 7-11, 2003,
hep-ph/0304139.
- Fundamental Physics at an X-ray Free Electron Laser,
Proc. Workshop on Electromagnetic Probes of Fundamental Physics, Erice, Italy, October 2001,
hep-ph/0112254.
Talks:
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Fundamental Physics at Free Electron Lasers,
PSI2013, Villigen/CH, September 2013 (21 pages).
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Tests of non-linear QED in the collision of electron beams with laser beams,
Bad Honnef/D, December 2010 (25 pages).
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Fundamental Physics at Free Electron Lasers,
Groningen/NL, November 2010 (40 pages).
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Tests of non-linear QED in the collision of electron beams with laser beams,
Hamburg/D, November 2010 (14 pages).
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New Experiments at the Intensity Frontier,
Dortmund/D, October 2010 (18 pages).
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Axion-like Particle Generation with the Free-Electron Laser VUV-FEL,
Seminar, University of Zurich, Zurich/CH, January 2006 (37 pages).
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Towards a Large Scale Axion Photon Regeneration Experiment,
Workshop on Future Axion Searches, Axion Academic Training, CERN, Geneva/CH, December 2005 (14 pages).
- Fundamental High-Field Science at an X-Ray FEL Facility,
Scientific and Technical Issues Round-Table Meeting, Hamburg/D (2004).
- Grundlagenphysik mit Freie-Elektronen-Lasern,
Jena/D (2004).
[Welcome]
Last modified: September 12, 2013
Andreas Ringwald