E144 Notes and Documentation
E144 Internal Notes and Documentation
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- 990925 - "Strong-Field QED",
K.T. McDonald,
Transparancies, PS (2.0MB),
Text version, PS (1.6MB),
presented at the Adrianfest, Rochester, NY Sept. 24-25, 1999.
- 980715 - "Higher-Order QED Effects and Nonlinear QED",
K.T. McDonald,
Transparencies (PS, 1.0MB), and
written version (PS, 690kB) of a talk
presented at the 1998 Physics In Collision conference,
relating E-144 to other aspects of quantum electrodynamics.
- 980526 - "Strong-Field QED (SLAC Experiment E-144)",
K.T. McDonald,
(
PS, 400kB), a brief summary of E-144.
- 980424 - "Detailed comparison of previous and latest
analyses".
G. Horton-Smith ( HTML )
- 980410 - "On the Trident Calculation for
E-144".
T. Koffas and A.C. Melissinos,
( Postscript,
380 kB)
- 980209 - "Cross-calibration of the E-144 Cherenkov
monitors with the electron
calorimeter".
G. Horton-Smith, (Postscript, 532 kB)
- 980102 - "Classical `Dressing' of a Free Electron in a Plane
Electromagnetic Wave".
K.T. McDonald,
( PS, 140kB)
- 971217 - "Loose Ends in Strong-Field QED (Including Laser
Acceleration)".
K.T. McDonald,
( PS, 970kB)
- 970924 - "Temporary Acceleration of Electrons Inside an Intense
Electromagnetic Pulse".
K.T. McDonald and K. Shmakov,
( PS, 100kB,
updated 11/20/97)
- 970815 - "Positron Production by Laser Light"
K.T. McDonald,
( PS, 2.3MB),
transparencies from a lecture given at the 1997 SLAC Summer Institute,
( PS, 1.5MB),
text version of a lecture given at the 1997 SLAC Summer Institute.
- 970822 - "A Relativistic Electron Can't Extract Net Energy from a
`Long' Laser Pulse",
K.T. McDonald,
( PS, 70kB)
- 970627 - Comment on "Experimental Observation of Electrons
Accelerated in Vacuum to Relativistic Energies by a High-Energy Laser",
K.T. McDonald,
( PS, 58kB,
updated 8/22/97)
- 970612 - "A Numeric Integration Program to Simulate
Nonlinear QED Processes in Electron-Laser or Photon-Laser
Collisions",
C. Bula,
( TeX ,
PS , 1.0MB)
- 970522 - "Nonlinear Compton measurements in Ecal with
green linear polarized laser and 46.6 GeV electron beam",
K. Shmakov,
( PS or
TeX,
728kB, updated 6/23/97)
- 970512 - "Limits on the Applicability of Classical
Electromagnetic Fields as Inferred from the Radiation Reaction",
K. McDonald,
( PS , 240kB,
updated 12/17/97)
- 970414 - "Effect of wavefront phase distortion on the
E144 focal spot",
G. Horton-Smith,
( HTML ,
166 kB, updated 4/14/97)
- 970308 - "E144: Polarization effects in positron production
and multi-photon Compton scattering in interaction of intense laser
with relativistic electrons",
K. Shmakov,
( PS ,
660Kb, updated 3/27/97)
- 970226 - "Analytic Approximation to the Constrained Solution for
eta^2 as a Function of Monitors N1, N2 and N3",
K. McDonald,
( PS , 55kB)
- 970123 - "Backgrounds to nonlinear Compton measurements in Ecal -
experimental status for March 95 Run",
K. Shmakov,
( PS ,
1.6MB, updated 3/21/97)
- 970114 - "The Weizsacker-Williams Approximation to Trident
Production in Electron-Photon Collisions",
C. Bula and K. McDonald,
( PS ,
400kB, updated 2/28/97)
- 970103 - "Comparison of Methods of Reconstruction of Nonlinear
Compton Scattering via ECAL Data",
K. McDonald,
( PS , 2.2MB)
- 970101 - "E144 Tracking Primer",
Eric Prebys, ( PS, 368kB,
or LaTeX, 19kB)
- 961118 - "Various relationships for linear polarization
and/or trident calculations",
Glenn Horton-Smith,
( PS, 87kB,
or LaTeX)
- 961029 - "Positron Production in a Plasma Wakefield
Accelerator",
K. McDonald,
( PS , 85kb)
- 960718 - "Beta match / spot tuning procedure
for the August 1996 run",
G. Horton-Smith,
( PS, 43kB)
- 960514 - "Tracking of Electrons and Positrons Through
the IP1 Spectrometer",
C. Bula,
( TeX ,
PS , 904kB)
- 951016 - "LOOKUP: Interface Program to the
Numeric Integration Lookup Tables",
C. Bula,
( TeX ,
PS , 81kB)
- 950526 - "Gaussian Laser Beams and Particle
Acceleration",
K. McDonald,
( PS , 92kB)
- 941228a - "Status of the Data",
A. Melissinos,
( TeX ,
PS )
- 941228b - "(DRAFT) Nonlinear Compton Scattering of
46 GeV Electrons",
A. Melissinos,
( TeX ,
PS )
- 941017 - "Measurement of the Longitudinal Polarization of the
Final Focus Test Beam",
M.B. Woods et al., (gifs:
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- 911020 - "Proposal for a Study of QED at Critical Field Strength
in Intense Laser-High-Energy-Electron Collisions at the Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center",
C. Bula et al., SLAC Proposal E-144
( PS , 3.1MB)
- 891027 - "Proposal for an Experimental Study of Nonlinear Compton
Scattering",
K. McDonald et al., BNL Proposal
( PS , 1.4MB)
- 890908 - "Will Ordinary Electron-Laser Interactions
Preclude Observation of Nonlinear Strong-Field Effects",
K. McDonald,
( PS , 76kB)
- 870309 - "The Hawking-Unruh Temperature and Quantum Fluctuations in
Particle Accelerators",
K. McDonald,
( PS ,
72kB). Published in the Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE
Particle Accelerator Conference, E.R. Lindstrom and L.S. Taylor, eds.,
(Mar. 16-19, 1987, Washington, D.C.)
- 860902 - "Proposal for Experimental Studies of Nonlinear
Quantum Electrodynamics",
K. McDonald,
( PS , 980kB)
- 850107 - "Fundamental Physics During Violent
Accelerations",
K. McDonald, ( PS,
220kB), published in Laser Acceleration of Particles,
C. Joshi and T. Katsouleas, eds., AIP Conf. Proc. No. 130, 23 (1985).
