SciPost Submission Page
LUXE: A new experiment to study non-perturbative QED in $e^{-}$-laser and $γ$-laser collisions
by Ruth Jacobs, on the behalf of the LUXE collaboration
Submission summary
| As Contributors: | Ruth Jacobs |
| Arxiv Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10026v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2021-07-22 10:39 |
| Submitted by: | Jacobs, Ruth |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | DIS2021 |
| Academic field: | Physics |
| Specialties: |
|
| Approach: | Experimental |
Abstract
The LUXE experiment (Laser Und XFEL Experiment) is a new experiment in planning at DESY Hamburg using the electron beam of the European XFEL. LUXE is intended to study collisions between a high-intensity optical laser and up to 16.5 GeV electrons from the Eu.XFEL electron beam, or, alternatively, high-energy secondary photons. The physics objective of LUXE are processes of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) at the strong-field frontier, where QED is non-perturbative. This manifests itself in the creation of physical electron-positron pairs from the QED vacuum. LUXE intends to measure the positron production rate in a new physics regime at an unprecedented laser intensity. Parasitically, the high-intensity Compton photon beam of LUXE can be used to search for physics beyond the Standard Model.