High-Efficiency Radiation via Fast Electron Beam Pinching in Nonuniform Plasmas
Abstract
The continuous development of bright x/gamma-ray sources has opened up new frontiers of science and advanced applications. Currently, there is still a lack of efficient approaches to produce high-energy gamma-rays with peak brilliance comparable to modern free-electron lasers. Here, we report a novel mechanism called beam fast pinching radiation burst to generate such gamma-ray sources. It is achieved by injecting a giga-electron volt electron beam into a submillimeter plasma with an upramp density profile, enabling violent beam pinching to occur rapidly. During this process, a burst of collimated gamma-rays is efficiently produced with photon energies ranging from mega-electron volts to giga-electron volts, electron-to-photon energy conversion efficiency above 20%, and peak brilliance exceeding 1028 photons s-1 mm-2 mrad-2 per 0.1% bandwidth. All of these are several orders of magnitude higher than existing gamma-ray sources. This opens a novel avenue for the development of extremely bright gamma-ray sources for both fundamental research and cutting-edge applications.
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