Baier, V N

Katkov, V M

Strakhovenko, V M

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Particle Accelerators, 1990, Vol. 30, pp. 43-54Reprints available directly from the publisherPhotocopying permitted by license only© 1990 Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc.Printed in the United States of AmericaQUANTUM BEAMSTRAHLUNG AND ELECTROPRODUCTIONOF THE PAIRS IN LINEAR COLLIDERSv•N•BAIERtV.M. KATKOV AND V. M. STRAKHOVENKOInstitute of Nuclear Physics,Novosibirsk,USSRA +-bstract The processes of beamstrahlung and e e pairproduction at beam-beam collisions are discussed on thebasis of the quasiclassical operator approach,takingthe presence of the field,it's ingomogeneity,end effectand finite beam sizes into account.INTRODUCTIONTheparticle interaction at beam-beam collision in linearcolliders occurs in an electromagnetic field provided bythe beams.As a result,firstly,the phenomena induced bythis field turn out to be essential and,secondlY,the crosssections of the main quantum electrodynamics processes aredrastically modified compared to the case of free particle.The general theory of electromagnetic interactions ofrelativistic particles in external fields was given else-where; It is based on the quasi classical operator approachwhich2consistently takes into account the recoil effectsat interaction and neglects quantum character of the mo-tion itself.Using this approach,the general problem ofrad.iation a.t quasi-periOdic motion wa.s solved3 .The motionof a particle in the field of oncoming beam belongs tothis very type.In this case the accuracy of quasiclassicaldescription is V1+fl)'/ Nd.. , [JJ is the disruption parameter,N is the total number of particles in the bunch,cJ.. =e2..==1/137 (the system of units h=c=1 is used).Recently thistheory served as the foundation for the specific crysta.lelectrodynamics4 ,5,6,beingCOnfirmed in the series of expe-riments.ln the present paper the quasiclassical theory isapplied to description of e+e- pair creation and radiationat beam-beam collision. The radiation energy losses arewidely discussed at present7,8 t 9,10,11 o[1001]/4344/[1002]RADIATIONV. N. BAIER, V. M. KATKOV AND V. M. STRAKHOVENKOThe polarization of the particles involved is naturallydescribed within the quasiclassical approach1,3.Here, forthe sake of simplicity we give the spectral density of theradiation probability for unpolarized initial particle,summed up over the polarizations of 'the fina.l particlesand integrated over the photon emission angles:co~ = Ld-. ( dt ail:. [.1 + ( E. £")_( fi(t4)- fj(t2.)\2].ole..> 291 _~ tt'-i.O !~ £.,+ €. 2 'l• t2.· exp{ - L::1: [ i2+ t ~ dt'i5.2.(t')]}tj.t2,X(t') =1r(t') - ~ Sax V(x) ,t.,where t2,.,i =t ± tt/2. 'K =£/m , m( e) is the electron mass(energy), E.'=e-~.Note,that the structure of Eq.(2.1) istypical for the quasiclassical approach,when the resultsobta.ined are expressed in terms of the velocity fj(t)on theclassical trajectory.The Eq.(2.1) represents the contribu-tion of a certain trajectory.To describe the bunch radia-tion as a whole one should sum up the contributions fromdifferent trajectories.The same problem appeared at des-cription of the radiation in crystals6 • This proced.ureturns out to be especially simple a.t 9J« 1.. •Then Eq. (2.1)ac:qu.ires a meaning of the contribution of the particle withdefinite impact parameter 55 and the summation is reducedto the averaging over particle distribution in the trans-'verse plane.If the field varies slightly along the trajectory, theSot'! I -2 ') . (- -)2. ()integral off cit .6 (t/ and the quantity 1F(f,) -U(i,)· in Eq. 2.1can be expanded in powers of ~ .The main term of this ex-pansion gives the well known constant-field (OF) limit,cal-led also synchrotron radiation limit:QUANTUM BEAMSTRAHLUNG [1003]145(2.2)0() ClIOdw:CF" c! rT ~ = 1(:;' J'~t~(t), ~ (t) =(~ + E.')K2 (~)- Sd~Ki (~)CAW 9\~ ~~ -00 £' e "3 ~ ~ ,where K" are 'the MacDonald functions, ~ =2u /3J.(t) , u =w/g/ •The shape of the spectrum and the magnitude of the Quantumeffects in the radiation is determined by the parameter~ :J= J1te rr"p.,,/111 3 )21 = ~lfl/Ho (2.3)here p"( £ , P) is a particle four-momentum, rf " is an elect-romagnetic field tensor, P =E-V(ifE)+'lr~/H ; EandH areelectric and magnetic fields in the lab.system andHo=m~e==4.41.1013 0e.The radiation is characterized by the lengthof photon formation ei corresponding to the values of ~ inEq.(2.1) yielding the phase of the exponent of order unity.One can use as estimate an expression e-5 ~ f oJ-yi+:t/II./13(= (Jre , .ftc =lim. We assume that the particles in eachbeam are in Gaussian distribution with standard deviations6x ' S~ and 6'~ .The case 5" =6'~ =0.1. will be referred to 8.S around beam(rd) and the case 6")(,>:>S~ as a flat beam(fl). Thenwe have in the region of ·time and transverse coord.inatesgiving the main contribution, at fixed ~-X(t):. .xo(~) exp(- 2t'lG"i), .J;c1=.x~. t(~/6J.)I:Hro/6'J.) ,(2.4)The function 5(s) has a maximum at So = ?o /6"J. =1. 585and1(S)=OJI5.1.Retaining next terms of expansion in powers of ~ inEq. (2.1) yields the probability in the form d'Wi = dwt~+cor-rections.Arising correction terms account for the fieldingomogeneity along the length of formation. These gradientcorrections were calculated first for the case of harmonictransverse motion3.For the general case their explicit form6 11 .was given elsewhere' .The relative value of the correc-46/[1004] V. N. BAIER, V. M. KATKOV AND V. M. STRAKHOVENKOn;d= i.41't:.X.;, (1+ 4. 3S,Xn,+ 0.2J~r %;,tiona provided by longitudinal ingomogeneity is of order(f5/6-zl'. The contribution of the transverse ingomogeneityis as a rule still more less11 .We emphasize the validityof the formula(2.2) at large values of the parameter~ aswell.In this case one should take into account in Eq.(2.4)the time dependance of transverse coordinate on the parti-cle trajectory.For the frequencies ~ contributing to the energy 100s1lE. and to the total number of photons n~ emitted by oneelectron(positron) during collision,the relation e~/5~~102holds,providing a high accuracy of CF-limit.The numericalcalculation of the relative energy loss 1J.E./ E. and t1a- wascarried out.After averaging over transverse distributionof radiating beam these quantities were fitted within 3%for arbitrary values of the parameter ~ rt1 :(2.5)~e.(a E:) 2 [ . 2. 2/T = O.1H o 'tS.,; i+i.":J'(i+-xm)el1(i+2..6JI'l'l)+O.2S.l ... ]- 3,(A£)~~ 1 .. 1 - 2./3T =O.4i8·'l.'J~[i+'3U.+)m)el1(1+2Jm)+O.9JWI] .The formulae (2.5) allow one to estimate the radiation cha-racteristics in colliders avoiding tedious calculations.Note,that for the known projects we get V1a'fV1 and I!:.E.,/€=:(4+10)_10-2.. The length of' formation e-S increases with de-creasing frequency Wand CF-description becomes invalidat (U~ £">0=(2 eo/()t)~4£ /Yo2.For the frequencies sa.tisfyingthe condition Wo « CiJ ~< sIlo /61. side by side with"synchro-trontt photons the end (collinea.r) photons are radiated.Thecontribution of the end photons to the energy losses isalways much less,than one provided by CF-mechanism.Theirspectral distribution was derived elsewhere11QUANTUM BEAMSTRAHLUNGdw t:A {C ,2. [ (2fo£'~ £1 }-8 = - i+f.) €11- fY\ (.,J ) - i 11~] - 2.-.lei) $W e2. W6~ 6JO• £.[1005]/47(2.6)The momentum transfer along the length of formationcauses an influence of an external field on incoherent pro-cesses with :J/u being the parameter.The problem was solvedfirst to logarithmic12 and then to power accuracy13for~/u~~1.Under this condition the radiation of a virtualphoton only is modified resulting in an increase of theminimal momentum transfer <:t-.,., .... by the factor (4~~ Iv.. )'({\.~iand logarithmic decrease of the cross section. When the pa-rameter :J./u. is not small the radiation vertex of a realphoton changes and the cross section decreases as(~/~)~3 •14 /As a result we have at:x 1.1» 1 :ds =2d..3 r(~/3)(~)'2./3(i+ £12)fVl ~VI'lAV. (2.7)dw 5m~W 31 '€2. ~mi"~3 -~~ ~9here q,~,,~h1(Y/u), q,mi.,= I11J'~. (u/.x) .The suppression of incoherent radiation owing to thefiniteness of transverse beam sizes was investigated inINP both experimentally15 and theoretically16. The phenome-non can be understood directly from the uncertainty rela-tion: q,J..G'~ ~ i and one should substitute 9-,,";;;+ S;J. in Eq. (2.7)at 0 . ~ 6-1. .The spectrum of equiva.lent photons changes cor-~h1." ~respondingly:I1(W)= 2a . eVl (Ala (w))3i (J -v (2 .8)q..(w)== W~-i(i+c.x/(.»)~/3+Gt= q.~((,))+ q,/i' Cl-6"= 6~-L ,here a is the upper bound of a transverse momentum. trans-fer,depending on the process, the virtual photon is invol-ved.PAlRPRODUCTIONAs it was shown in the previous section,the density of the48/[1006] V. N. BAIER, V. M. KATKOV AND V. M. STRAKHOVENKOphotons arising during the collision tim,e is comparable tothe density of charged particles in the bunches.We willconsider below the ways of converting these photons intoe+epairs, which can serve as unavoidable source of thebackground. The angular distribution of the outgoing pairsdepends on their energy spectrum owing to an rapid increaseof the particle deflection angle in the field of the onco-ming beam with decrease of the particlets energy.Pair Creation in the Field of the Oncoming BeamThe probabilities of a photon radiation by a charged par-ticle and pair creation by a photon are interrelated1 .Thecorresponding formulae are mutually derived from eachother with substitutions:E-.-£., c.v .... -w, w2.dw-.. _£.2d€.. (3.1)For example, using Eq.(3.1) we get from Eq.(2.2) the spec-tral probability of e+e-pair creation by the photon for anunpolarized case in OF-limit:d CF" "oa 00~= d.~: Sdt~(t), ~(t)=(~+E')K2(~)+SdsK!..(s). (3.2)dE. $CiJ ,,3 -00 E E '3 ~ ~Where E is the energy of one of the created particles,E'= (A}-£, ~= 2.W)/(3:eCt)E E') .The parameter £ is determi-ned by Eq.(2.3),if one changes the particle momentum p~ tophoton momentum K"i.e. ~""'W/h1, ;r~H = i</w •The cor-responding length of formation is ep~ CJm-2.ae-J.(1+~E'E/(.U2)i/3•Ex-plicit formulae,describing corrections to CF-lim,it atphotoproduction were given elsewhere5,17. The results forthe magnitude of the gradient corrections and end effectsdiscussed above are valid in the case of photoproduction1?We get for the probability of cascade process of thephoton radiation and subsequent pair creation in the fieldof the oncoming beam (coherent cascade):2 OC) edw,,"= -.:!:..2Sdt1d~ Sd~ ['R.(ti)C:P(tJ-K1tli!(t.L))K1/~(tJ)] (3.3)dE S5i CV 0 e 3 ,-0() EQUANTUM BEAMSTRAHLUNG [1007]/49The functions~, 'Pe are defined in Eqs.(2.2),(3.2).Rem.indthat l (i) =2 wI 3£'.xtt) , ~ (t) = 2 U)1/(3E£' a!.(i)) , 't= ol6'~ /~}\c.We stress the ~oint that the probability (3.3) is not redu-ced to a product of the probabilities (2.2) and (3.2).Wemean not a trivial factor 1/2 appearing in transformationsof integrals over time, but an additional term K~3·K,~in Eq.J(3.3).It appears owing to the fact,that radiated photonshave a definite polarization and in turn the nrobability ofpair creation depends on this polarization.Fig.1 shows theoFIGURE 1)( 1The energy spectrum in coherent cascade.spectrum (3.3) normalized to unity: v;!.JtJ;./dx, X= E/E.for different values of the parameter ~o .At Jo~< i thereis a peak at x=1/3 i.e. the energy of the initial particleis divided approximately into equal parts between threefinal particles.With the parameter ~o growing, the positionof the spectral maximum Xh1 moves to the left: X\11~(3+.xo)-j" •At large:1.o» i the spectrum in a wide region X> Xm is pro-portional to X- L .The fitting procedure (within 3.3°k forflat and 5~for round beam) gives for numerically calcula-ted probabilities after averaging over transverse coordina-tes50/[1008] V. N. BAIER, V. M. KATKOV AND V. M. STRAKHOVENKOrcA li 2 5/2. S/stv. = 1. l(6 't J",. (IC +J I11} en (i+ :f..111 )_e)(p (_.i£ "r (':f+3Jk-t)'1. 30 3J.hl ).The quntities.J."and 1., are defined by Eqs. (2.4) and (2.5).The probabili-tor tif"y is negligibly small atJh1« i ,but withthe parameter.J.wa growing it increases very rapidly, so thatat ~~'> i the contribution of the coherent cascade becomesdominant.The direct electroproduction process (e-.3e) owing tovirtual intermidiate photons occurs as well.This processwas investigated19,20 in CF-case. The total probabilityof e~3e process becomes comparable to 1N'y ( see E q. (8)inRef.18) only at -X"", '» i , when the spectrum falls as X-~/3for x> X~ ~ :x-J. • At :J~ ~ i the probability 11"~is approximately (5, / €, rv 10 2 times larger.The density of the real photons radiated incoherent-ly is very small t that is why the corresponding nlJ.mber of-pairs created by these photons in the field of the onco-ming beam is under real conditions a few orders of magni-tude less comparing to the main processes.To get ideaabout the scale of the effect we give asymptotic expres-sions :for the probability o:f this process -W-:4 :for roundbeam:s'\rp(('l = 2.. 15'iO-~"l.1.x~.~c:.en(SJ.)e)lp(_.!. ).J..,,«L 6.l. Ac 3.x"", ,'IN/'} ,. =0.2.1 d. 't'2.x; · ~c • en ( 6.1. ~~3) .J. »i OJ.. XcThe main c~ntribution to the probability 'l.f;' is given byl.J t'V £ at arbitrary values of the parameter .J'h1 t so thatthe spectrum in this process has no peculiarities.Incoherent ProcessesThe CF-photon incoherent conversion into the pair (m,ixedcascade) is of importance at.Y..". <:. i only. In this case theparameter ~ =J'(;)/e of the radiated photon is small enoughand incoherent photoproduction cross section 6 p is nearlyQUANTUM BEAMSTRAHLUNG [1009]/51independent of the photon frequency,owing to the finitebeam size influence<5 -= 28 cK ~2.. Q.. en (~~) Q.= i + 396 ,:£1. (3.6)p 9 c.Ae.' 1'2.25"Using Eq.(2.2) one can show,that t:J1../e.2 < i/6 .Then theprobability of the process under discussion V~7-) is fa.cto.-rized, if neglecting corrections V? ~'l. (letting Q=1 in Eq.(?6)):'W"/i}(p) = ~ N ~~(p) Vt x(P)· G"p (3.7)where ~J. (~) is the transverse distribution in the oncomingbeam.At averaging of Eq.(3.7) with a transverse distribu-tion in the second beam it is convenient to use an expres-sion fitting the number of photons at fixed~ within 1eyo :hlf (f}::: i. 81 't.xo[i+ i.5 (~+.xo)el1 (i+3Xo)+O.3.x; ] -i/e; (3.8)After averaging mentioned we have at ~l11 <<. i'Vf~7.) \ = c 'd..'t~2. I ~c. . eYi ( s~.) (3.9)p I'l1 6"~ ~coJ", <.< i -se. -2 - Ct)where C~O.224 and Cp =3.58.10 .The probability '\NI' is ne-gligibly small at Ytrt '>~ i ,comparing to the coherent cascad.ecase,e.g. one has for the round beam.s'lJ.f (2.)/v: \ =::: 5. 5 01..' }\c. e~ (E):fI~c)p r <S~ ~\1 ~"n1 •Yn,"»iTo describe the pair creation by two virtual photonswe will use the equivalent photon approximation. As thephotoprocess is suppressed at ~» i by the factor ~ <£-'Z/3 tthe upper bound on contributing freq~encies is determi-ned by the condition ;e(w) =J.GJ/£ ~ i ,so that GJm('(x==€/~+~) .The lower bound is determined as in a free par-ticle case b:r the relation GJ{W2.= t11'2. ,giving (Jml\l\-= h1{1+.:x)/-g 0At W<Wm~one can neglect the field dependence of the two52/[1010] V. N. BAIER; V. M. KATKOV AND V. M. STRAKHOVENKOphoton process cross section and the quantitYA in Eq.(2.8)Let the frequency Wt; be defined by the equality 'l/l.>()) = q,«:r( q,p' ~6' are given in Eq.(2.8)) then the lower bound on mo-mentum transfer q,(W) is determined by the beam sizes at£A)~ 06 and by the field at W~ (J6. One finds from Eq. (2.8)WG' = Wmi ..·(q.«1 q,~(c.vi11i1.))3h. .Letting Ii. = \'YI we have in themain logarithm.ic approximation for the cross section of the2e~ 4e processL =~ e~ ( (,J..,~~) L:=. eV. (.§~) L= g fl-l ( UJh1 (1.}() (3 •11 )i 3 W,' 2. ~'3 3 I.' ,.",~ .l\c. \N'SCX)Cf(r)= S~ &(1+XJe.,(i+ f),oOne should keep the term t(1(~) inEq. (3.11) at ~» 1 only,when \(>(~) ~ ( e~ ~)"3 /6 .The ratio of this cross sectionat :J.W\ ~ i to the standard Landau-Lifshitz21 one 0L.L. isroughly aboutThe total number and the speotrum of created pairs at J.~<' iare determined just by the 2e ~ 4e process and by themixed cascade with approximately equal contributons.For the pair production by two real photons (~rprocess)we consider more general case,when created particles havethe mass~ and spin s= 0 or 8=1/2. One should average thecorresponding two photon cross section with two radiationspectra (2.2).The interval of the contributed frequenciesis determined by the properties of these spectra and bythe mentioned suppression of' the phot$,producton at ~» i •The minimum frequency coincides with G)o =4e (2~":F.c. 15~?IJ.:introduced above andW~J'1w,,£ E.::Jo/(i+.Jo)2. .The effective crosssection was derived18 at '->0 « rto logarithmic accuracy. Oneget the total number of pairs after averaging 6~With N2.~(~),QUANTUM BEAMSTRAHLUNG [1011]/536: =f.S4 C(s)~l6: c;:; r/~ en (~o ) (3.13)(4/~ (0)where C =1 and C =1/8.When an opposite inequality is ful1-fil1ed~o»~ the pair production by ~~ -process is suppres-sed as Ct-/CiJo )'1/3. Note ,that. for e+e- produotion it's con-tribution is 1,+ 2 orders of magnitude less com.paring toother incoherent processes.For the creation of heavy par-ticles with,.» t'l1 the parameter }. (f) =J{l"t1}('m/f)3 is smalland the incoherent processes only are of importance. 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