Laser-assisted (e,2e) study with twisted electron beam on H-atom

TL;DR

This paper develops a theoretical model to study how laser-assisted twisted electron beams influence the ionization of hydrogen atoms, analyzing angular distributions and the effects of laser and beam parameters in (e,2e) processes.

Contribution

The study introduces a new theoretical framework for laser-assisted twisted electron impact ionization, incorporating Coulomb-Volkov waves and analyzing parameter effects on angular distributions.

Findings

Laser parameters significantly affect the angular distribution of TDCS.

Twisted electron beam parameters alter the ionization cross-section profiles.

The model provides insights into controlling ionization processes with laser and beam tuning.

Abstract

We study the laser-assisted twisted electron beam impact ionization of the hydrogen atom in coplanar asymmetric geometry. We develope the theoretical model in the first Born approximation. In the presence of the laser field, we treat the incident and scattered electrons as Volkov waves, the ejected electron, moving in the combined field of the laser and residual ion H + , is described by a Coulomb-Volkov wave function . In this communication, we compare the angular profile of triple differential cross-section (TDCS) for laser-assisted twisted electron beam incidence with the plane-wave, laser-assisted plane wave, and field-free twisted electron beam for (e,2e) processes, for different orbital angular momentum (OAM) number (m l ) values. We analyze the influence of the laser parameters (photon exchanged, intensity ) on the angular distribution of the TDCS. We study the (T DCS) av for macroscopic target to examine the effect of opening angle {\theta} p of the twisted electron beam on the angular profile of TDCS. Our results clearly show the impact of laser parameters (electric field ? and number of photon exchanged (l)) and twisted electron beam parameters (OAM number (m l ) and opening angle ({\theta} p )) on the angular distribution of TDCS.