Angle-differential cross sections for Rayleigh scattering of highly linearly polarized hard x rays on Au atoms
Autor(in); Institution
Middents, Wilko; Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, GERMANY; Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena, GERMANY
Weber, Günter; Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena, GERMANY; GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, GERMANY
Gumberidze, Alexandre; GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, GERMANY
Hahn, Christoph; Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena, GERMANY; GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, GERMANY
Krings, Thomas; Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, GERMANY
Kurz, Nikolaus; GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, GERMANY
Pfäfflein, Philip; GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, GERMANY; GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, GERMANY
Schell, Norberg; Institute of Materials Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, GERMANY
Spillmann, Uwe; GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, GERMANY
Strnat, Sophia; FPM, Fundamentale Physik für Metrologie, PTB-Braunschweig
Vockert, Marco; Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, GERMANY; Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena, GERMANY
Volotka, Andrey; Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena, GERMANY
Surzhykov, Andrey; FPM, Fundamentale Physik für Metrologie, PTB-Braunschweig; Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, GERMANY; Laboratory for Emerging Nanometrology Braunschweig, GERMANY
Stöhlker, Thomas; Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, GERMANY; Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena, GERMANY; GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, GERMANY
Elastic Rayleigh scattering ; Angular distribution of elastically scattered photons
Zusammenfassung
We perform a study on Rayleigh scattering of highly linearly polarized hard x rays on a thin Au foil target. In the study the angular distribution of the scattered radiation is analyzed in a relativistic regime both within and out of the plane of polarization of the incident beam. Within this experiment we scatter a synchrotron beam with a photon energy of 175 keV on a high-Z target foil, namely, gold. Our findings correlate well with state-of-the-art calculations of the scattering process performed in the framework of quantum electrodynamics and may have considerable impact on future experiments regarding a polarization-resolved analysis of Delbrück scattering. Furthermore, we show that the angular distribution of Rayleigh scattering can be used for a highly sensitive determination of the degree and orientation of the linear polarization of the incident hard-x-ray beam, if we rely on the theoretical framework.
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Themenbereich der Metrologie
Zeit und Frequenz
Innovationscluster
Quantentechnologie
Geschäftsfelder
Grundlagen der Metrologie
Zitierung
Middents, W., Weber, G., Gumberidze, A., Hahn, C., Krings, T., Kurz, N., Pfäfflein, P., Schell, N., Spillmann, U., Strnat, S., Vockert, M., Volotka, A., Surzhykov, A., & Stöhlker, T. (2023). Angle-differential cross sections for Rayleigh scattering of highly linearly polarized hard x rays on Au atoms. Physical Review A, 107(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.012805
