Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: In everyday research, it is tacitly assumed that scattering cross sections have fixed values for a given particle species, center-of-mass energy, and particle polarization. However, this assumption has been called into question after several observations of suppression of high-energy bremsstrahlung. This process will play a major role in experiments at the future Electron-Ion Collider, and we show how variations of the bremsstrahlung cross section can be profoundly studied there using the lateral beam displacements. In particular, we predict a very strong increase of the observed cross sections for large beam separations. We also discuss the relation of these elusive effects to other quantum phenomena occurring over macroscopic distances. In this context, spectacular and possibly useful properties of the coherent bremsstrahlung at the Electron-Ion Collider are also evaluated.
Institution: UCLouvain
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Award: G7459612307
OpenAlex ID: W3106590778