Quantum radiation reaction is the influence of multiple photon emissions from a charged particle on the particle's dynamics, characterized by a significant energy-momentum loss per emission. Here we report experimental radiation emission spectra from ultrarelativistic positrons in silicon in a regime where quantum radiation reaction effects dominate the positron's dynamics. Our analysis shows that while the widely used quantum approach is overall the best model, it does not completely describe all the data in this regime. Thus, these experimental findings may prompt seeking more generally valid methods to describe quantum radiation reaction. This experiment is a fundamental test of quantum electrodynamics in a regime where the dynamics of charged particles is strongly influenced not only by the external electromagnetic fields but also by the radiation field generated by the charges themselves and where each photon emission may significantly reduce the energy of the charge.

We present the experimental data and analysis of experiments conducted at SLAC National Accelerator\ud Laboratory investigating the processes of channeling, volume-reflection and volume-capture along the\ud (111) plane in a strongly bent quasimosaic silicon crystal. These phenomena were investigated at 5\ud energies: 3.35, 4.2, 6.3, 10.5, and 14.0 GeV with a crystal with bending radius of 0.15 m, corresponding to\ud curvatures of 0.053, 0.066, 0.099, 0.16, and 0.22 times the critical curvature, respectively. Based on the\ud parameters of fitting functions we have extracted important parameters describing the channeling process\ud such as the dechanneling length, the angle of volume reflection, the surface transmission, and the widths of\ud the distribution of channeled particles parallel and orthogonal to the plane

We report on an experiment performing channeling and volume reflection of a high-energy electron beam using a quasimosaic, bent silicon (111) crystal at the End Station A Test Beam at SLAC. The experiment uses beams of 3.35 and 6.3 GeV. In the channeling orientation, deflections of the beam of 400 μrad for both energies with about 22% efficiency are observed, while in the volume-reflection orientation, deflection of the beam by 120 μrad at 3.35 GeV and by 80 μrad at 6.3 GeV is observed with 86%-95% efficiency. Quantitative measurements of the channeling efficiency, surface transmission, and dechanneling length are taken. These are the first quantitative measurements of channeling and volume reflection using a primary beam of multi-GeV electrons.

A new scheme of making crystalline undulators was recently proposed and investigated theoretically by Andriy Kostyuk, concluding that a new type of crystalline undulator would be not only viable, but better than the previous scheme. This article describes the first experimental measurement of such a crystalline undulator, produced by using Si(1-x)Ge(x)-graded composition and measured at the Mainzer Microtron facility at beam energies of 600 and 855 MeV. We also present theoretical models developed to compare with the experimental data.

In this paper we make a theoretical investigation of a new type of high-energy nonlinear Compton scattering phenomenon. In particular we show how, under certain conditions, interference effects arise when two laser pulses of different photon energy are shone upon a high-energy electron beam. The semiclassical operator method of Baier et al. is revisited as the method of investigation of this phenomenon. We show how their result can be cast into a form very similar to the classical result of radiation emission. Experimental verification of the described interference phenomenon is possible with current technology.