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A SEMI-ANALYTICAL ALGORITHM FOR MODELLING COMPTONGAMMA-RAY BEAMS∗
C. Sun† Y. K. Wu, DFELL/TUNL and Dept. of Physics, Duke University, NC 27708-0319, USA
Abstract
Compton scattering of a laser beam with a relativisticelectron beam has been used to generate an intense, highlypolarized, and nearly monoenergetic gamma-ray beam atseveral facilities. The ability of predicting the spatial andspectral distributions of a Compton gamma-ray beam iscrucial for the optimization of the operation of a Comp-ton light source as well as for the applications utilizing theCompton beam. In this paper, we present an analytical al-gorithm for modelling Compton scattering process. Basedupon this algorithm, we developed a numerical integrationcode to produce smooth results for the spatial and spectraldistributions of the Compton beam. This code has beenused to characterize the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source(HIγS) at Duke University for varying electron and laserbeam parameters as well as different gamma-ray beam col-limation conditions.
INTRODUCTION
Compton scattering of a laser beam with a relativisticelectron beam has been successfully used to generate anintense, highly polarized and nearly monoenergetic x-rayor gamma-ray beam with a tunable energy at many facili-ties [1, 2]. These unique Compton beams have been used ina wide range of basic and application research fields fromnuclear physics to astrophysics, from medical research tohomeland security and industrial applications [1].
The ability of predicting the spectral, spatial and tempo-ral characteristics of a Compton gamma-ray beam is cru-cial for the optimization of the gamma-ray beam produc-tion as well as applications utilizing the beam. While thetheory of electron-photon Compton scattering (the scatter-ing between a monoenergetic electron and a monoenergeticlaser beams with zero transverse beam sizes) are well doc-umented in literature [3, 4], there remains a need to fullyunderstand the characteristics of the gamma-ray beam pro-duced by Compton scattering of a laser beam and an elec-tron beam with specific spatial and energy distributions,i.e., the beam-beam scattering.
In this paper, we present a semi-analytical algorithm tostudy the Compton scattering process of a laser beam andan unpolarized electron beam in the linear Compton scat-tering regime. Using this algorithm, we are able to charac-terize a Compton x-ray or gamma-ray beam with varying
∗Work supported by US Air Force Office of Scientific Researchmedical FEL grant FA9550-04-01-0086 and US DOE grant DE-FG02-97ER41033.
† [email protected], [email protected]. Currently at Lawrence Berke-ley National Laboratory.
laser and electron beam parameters, arbitrary collision an-gles, and different gamma-beam collimation conditions.
ELECTRON-PHOTON SCATTERING
In the following, we limit our analysis to head-on colli-sions of laser photons and electrons. Because of conserva-tion of the momentum and energy, the photon energy afterthe scattering is given by
Eg =Ep(1 + β)
1 + Ep/Ee − (β − Ep/Ee) cos θf, (1)
where Ep and Ee are the incident photon and electron en-ergies; Eg is the scattered photon energy; β = v/c is thespeed of the incident electron relative to the speed of light;and θf is the scattering angle between directions of the in-cident electron and scattered photon.
In a laboratory frame, the angular differential cross sec-tion is given by [5, 6]
dσ
dΩ=
8r2eX2
{[1+Pt cos(2τ−2φf)]
[(1
X− 1
Y
)2
+1
X− 1
Y
]
+1
4
(X
Y+
Y
X
)}(Eg
mc2
)2
, (2)
where re is the classical electron radius; mc2 is the restmass energy of electron; Pt is the degree of linear polar-ization of the incident photon; τ is the azimuthal angle ofthe polarization vector of the incident photon; φf is the az-imuthal angle of the scattered photon;X and Y are Lorentzinvariant quantities given by
X =2γEp(1 + β)
mc2, Y =
2γEg(1− β cos θf )
mc2. (3)
With Eqs. (1) and (2), one is able to study the spatialand spectral distributions of a gamma-ray beam producedby Compton scattering of a monoenergetic electron andlaser beams with zero transverse beam sizes, i.e., electron-photon scattering. However, in the reality, the incidentelectron and laser beams have finite spatial and energy dis-tributions, which will change the distributions of the Comp-ton gamma-ray beam. In the following section, we willpresent an analytical algorithm for modelling a Comptonscattering process of a laser and an electron beams withGaussian phasespace distributions, i.e., the beam-beamscattering.
BEAM-BEAM SCATTERING
In a laboratory frame, an electron beam and a laser beamwith Gaussian phasespace distributions can be described by
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fe(x, y, z, x′, y′, p, t) =
1
(2π)3εxεyσpσlexp
[−γxx
2 + 2αxxx′ + βxx
′2
2εx− γyy
2 + 2αyyy′ + βyy
′2
2εy− (p− p0)
2
2σ2p
− (z − ct)2
2σ2z
],
fp(xl, yl, zl, k, t) =1
4π2σzσkσ2wexp
[−x2
l + y2l
2σ2w
− (zl + ct)2
2σ2l
− (k − k0)2
2σ2k
], σw =
√λβ0
4π
(1 +
z2lβ20
). (4)
θx
rd
r
k’
ze
L
x
z
e x’γ
xe
detectionpoint
collimation plane
Figure 1: Geometric constraint for a scattered gamma-rayphoton. The diagram only shows the projection of the con-straint in the x-z plane.
Eq. (4), where p is the momentum of an electron; p0 is thecentroid momentum of the electron beam; x′ and y′ are theangular divergences of the electron in the x and y direc-tions, respectively; αx,y, βx,y and γx,y are Twiss parame-ters of the electron beam; σp, σz and εx,y are the electronbeam momentum spread, RMS bunch length, and emit-tance, respectively; k and λ are the wavenumber and wave-length of a laser photon, and k0 is the centroid wavenumberof the laser beam; β0, σk and σl are the Rayleigh range, andthe RMS energy spread and bunch length of the laser beam.
The number of collisions occurring during a time dt andinside a phasespace volume d3p d3k dV of the incidentlaser and electron beams is given by [4]
dN(�r, �p,�k, t) = σtot(�p,�k)c(1 − �β · �k/|�k|)ne(�r, �p, t)
×np(�r,�k, t)d3pd3kdV dt, (5)
where σtot(�p,�k) is the total Compton scattering cross sec-tion which is determined by the momenta of the incidentelectron and laser photon, �p and h�k; �ve and �vp are thevelocities of the electron and photon, and �β = �ve/c;ne(�r, �p, t) = Nefe(�r, �p, t) and np(�r,�k, t) = Npfp(�r,�k, t),where Ne and Np are the total numbers of electrons andlaser photons in their respective pulses.
To calculate the spatial and energy distributions of aCompton gamma-ray beam, one need to integrate Eq. (5)over the entire collision time t and phasespace volumed3p d3k dV . However, during the integration, the differen-tial cross section should be used instead of the total crosssection, and two constraints need to be imposed [5, 7].
The first constraint is the geometric one, which assuresthe gamma-ray photon generated at the location �r can reachthe location �rd shown in Fig. 1. The projection of this con-straint in the x-z and y-z planes is given by
θx + x′ =xd − x
L, θy + y′ =
yd − y
L. (6)
Here, θx and θy are the projections of the scattering an-gle θf in the x-z and y-z planes, i.e., θx = θf cosφf ,θy = θf sinφf and θ2f = θ2x + θ2y , where θf and φf are theangles defined in the electron coordinate system (xe, ye, ze)in which the electron is incident along the ze-axis direction(Fig. 1). x′ and y′ are the angular divergences of the in-cident electron, i.e., the angles between the electron mo-mentum and z-axis. L is the distance between the collisionplane and the detection plane (or the collimation plane).Note that a far field detection (or collimation) has been as-sumed, i.e., L � |�r| and L ≈ |�rd|.
The second constraint is the energy conservation. Due tothe finite energy spread of the electron beam, the gamma-ray photon with an energy of Eg can be scattered from theelectron with an energy of γmc2 and scattering angle of θf .Mathematically, this constraint can be expressed as
δ(Eg − Eg),where Eg =4γ2Ep
1 + γ2θ2f + 4γEp/mc2. (7)
Thus, the spatial and energy distributions of a Comptongamma-ray beam is given by
dN(Eg, xd, yd)
dΩddEg≈ NeNp
∫dσ
dΩδ(Eg − Eg)c(1 + β)
×fe(x, y, z, x′, y′, p, t)
×fp(x, y, z, k, t)dx′dy′dpdkdV dt, (8)
where dΩd = dxddyd/L2, and dσ/dΩ is the differential
Compton scattering cross section. Note that a head-on col-lision between electron and laser beams has been assumed,and the density function fe(�r, �p, t) in Eq. (5) has been re-placed with fe(x, y, z, x
′, y′, p, t) of Eq. (4) under the ap-proximation pz ≈ p for a relativistic electron beam. In ad-dition, the integration
∫ · · · fp(�r,�k, t)d3k is replaced with∫ · · · fp(x, y, z, k, t)dk, where fp(x, y, z, k, t) is defined inEq. (4). Integrations over dkx and dky have been carriedout since the differential cross section has a very weak de-pendency on kx and ky for a relativistic electron beam.
Assuming head-on collisions for each individual scatter-ing event, neglecting the angular divergences of the laserbeam and replacing x′ and y′ with θx and θy , we can inte-grate Eq. (8) over dV, dt and dp to yield Eq. (9), where
ξx = 1 + (αx − βx
L)2 +
2kβxεxβ0
, ζx = 1 +2kβxεx
β0,
σθx =
√εxξxβxζx
, ξy = 1 + (αy − βy
L)2 +
2kβyεyβ0
,
ζy = 1 +2kβyεy
β0, σθy =
√εyξyβyζy
,
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dN(Eg, xd, yd)
dEgdxddyd=
r2eL2NeNp
4π3hcβ0σγσk
∫ ∞
0
∫ √4Ep/Eg
−√
4Ep/Eg
∫ θxmax
−θxmax
1√ζxζyσθxσθy
γ
1 + 2γEp/mc2
×{1
4
[4γ2Ep
Eg(1 + γ2θ2f )+
Eg(1 + γ2θ2f )
4γ2Ep
]− 2 cos2(τ − φf )
γ2θ2f(1 + γ2θ2f )
2
}
× exp
[− (θx − xd/L)
2
2σ2θx
− (θy − yd/L)2
2σ2θy
− (γ − γ0)2
2σ2γ
− (k − k0)2
2σ2k
]dθxdθydk. (9)
−100
0
100
−100
0
1000
5
10
15x 10
13
x (mm)y (mm)
Inte
nsity
(a.
u.)
x (mm)
y (m
m)
−50 0 50−80
−60
−40
−20
0
20
40
60
80
Figure 2: Calculated spatial distribution of a Comptongamma-ray beam at a transverse plane 30 meters down-stream from the collision point. The left figure is a 3D plotof the distribution and the right one is its contour plot. Thegamma beam with the peak energy of about 9 MeV is pro-duced by a 515 MeV electron beam scattering with a 545nm linearly polarized laser beam. The polarization vectorof the laser beam has an azimuthal angle of 45 degree withrespect to the horizontal plane.
θf =√
θ2x + θ2y , θxmax =√
4Ep/Eg − θ2y, σγ =σEe
mc2,
γ =2EgEp/mc2
4Ep − Egθ2f
⎛⎝1 +
√1 +
4Ep − Egθ2f4E2
pEg/(mc2)2
⎞⎠ , (10)
and σEe is the RMS energy spread of the electron beam.The integrations with respect to k, θy and θx in Eq. (9)
must be carried out numerically. Thus, a numerical integra-tion Compton scattering code in the C++ computing lan-guage (CCSC) has been developed to evaluate the integralof Eq. (9).
The spatial and spectral distributions of Comptongamma-ray beams calculated using this code are illustratedin Figs. 2 and 3. More applications of this code can befound in [8, 9]. This code has been benchmarked withour another Compton scattering code based upon a MonteCarlo simulation algorithm [9, 10].
CONCLUSIONS
In this paper, we present an analytical algorithm tomodel a gamma-ray beam produced by Compton scatter-ing a laser beam and an electron beam with Gaussian phas-espace distributions. Based upon this algorithm, we havedeveloped a numerical integration code to produce smoothresults for the spatial and spectral distributions of a Comp-ton beam. This code has been successfully used to char-
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0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
Gamma−ray energy (MeV)
Inte
nsity
(ar
b. u
nits
)
MeasuredCalculated
Figure 3: Comparison of measured and calculated Comp-ton gamma beam spectra. The gamma-ray beam is pro-duced by Compton scattering of a 466 MeV electron beamand a 790 nm laser beam at the HIγS facility. The en-ergy spread of the electron beam is 0.1%, and horizontaland vertical emittance are 7.8 and 1.0 nm-rad, respectively.The collimator with an aperture radius of 12.7mm is placed60 meters downstream from the collision point.
acterize the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIγS) atDuke University for varying electron and laser beam pa-rameters as well as different gamma-ray beam collimationconditions.
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