Polarization and angular correlation studies of X-rays emitted in

Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 169, 5–14 (2009) c EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag 2009
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2009-00965-0

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Polarization and angular correlation studies of X-rays emitted in relativistic ion-atom collisions Th. St¨ ohlker1,2,a , D. Bana´s3 , H. Br¨ auning1 , S. Fritzsche1,4 , S. Geyer1,5 , A. Gumberidze6 , S. Hagmann1,5 , S. Hess1,5 , C. Kozhuharov1 , A. Kumar1 , R. M¨ artin1,5 , B.E. O’Rourke1,6 , 1,5 1,5 1,2 7 R. Reuschl , U. Spillmann , A. Surzhykov , S. Tashenov , S. Trotsenko1,5 , G. Weber1,5 , and D.F.A. Winters1,5 1 2 3 4 5 6

Atomic Physics Group, GSI, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universit¨ at Heidelberg, Germany Institute of Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland FIAS, University of Frankfurt, Germany IKF, University of Frankfurt, Germany Centre for Plasma Physics, ICREP, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Abstract. Particle and photon polarization phenomena occurring in collisions of relativistic ions with matter have recently attracted particular interest. Investigations of the emitted characteristic x-ray and radiative electron capture radiation has been found to be a versatile tool for probing our present understanding of the dynamics of particles in extreme electromagnetic fields. Owing to the progress in x-ray detector technology, in addition, accurate measurements of the linear polarization for hard x-ray photons as well as the determination of the polarization plane became possible. This new diagnostic tool enables one today to derive information about the polarization of the ion beams from the photon polarization features of the radiative electron capture process.

1 Introduction By far the largest part of the visible matter in the universe exist in the form of stellar plasmas where high temperatures, high atomic charge states and high field strengths prevail. The investigation of these extreme atomic conditions is, therefore, indispensable for our understanding of energetic collisions processes ongoing in ordinary matter. Here, elementary atomic processes such as electron impact-ionization, collisional recombination, photo recombination and its time-inverse process, photo ionization, are crucial reaction pathways because they, at the same time, are the dominant electromagnetic interaction processes in cosmic plasmas. Stored highly-charged ions offer a unique possibility to analyze the main constituents and evolution of typical astrophysical plasmas, and to pursue detailed studies of electronic transitions, and of collisional processes as well as their influence on level populations and the emission of characterizing radiation. For this purpose the study of particle and photon polarization phenomena occurring in the interaction of fast ion or electron beams with matter is of particular relevance since the dominant radiative processes such as synchrotron radiation, bremsstrahlung, recombination, and inverse Compton scattering exhibit distinct polarization features. In addition, highly-charged heavy ions provide a unique probe for our understanding of relativistic particle dynamics under the presence of extreme electro-magnetic fields. Here, elementary atomic a

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processes like photoionization in the relativistic domain can nowadays be studied by its timereversal, the radiative electron capture process (REC), with an accuracy which is otherwise inaccessible [1,2]. In this review, an overview of the recent experimental and theoretical progress in understanding of electron capture and radiative decay processes for high-Z ions will be given. Examples include the angular distribution and polarization of the recombination and subsequent photons, the alignment of the excited levels as well as the interferences due to higher-order multipole-transitions. It is shown that the spin properties of the incident ions (and electrons) can be analyzed by means of the emitted x-ray radiation. This finding is of great importance for experiments aiming at the control of the spin-polarization of stored particles as required for future experiments to test the standard model by using highly-charged heavy-ions [3–5].

2 Experimental considerations During the last few years the development of storage rings equipped with electron-cooler devices [7–9] and electron-beam driven ion traps has received a lot of attention because of their potential for fundamental physics experiments [10–12]. For the heaviest ions such as hydrogenlike uranium, an important step was achieved with the advent of the heavy-ion experimental storage ring (ESR) at GSI in Darmstadt and the Super Electron-Beam Ion-Trap (EBIT) at Livermore [10,12]. At the ESR, electron cooling guarantees ion beams of unprecedented quality, i.e. this technique provides cooled and intense beams at high-Z and with precisely known energies and charge states at small momentum spread [2,8,9]. These conditions are, therefore, well suited for a broad range of very different experiments in the realm of atomic and nuclear physics [13–17] and in particular for the spectroscopy of x-ray transitions in the heaviest oneand few-electron ions [1,18]. In contrast to storage rings, at EBIT devices the highly charged ions are produced at rest in the laboratory. There, the experiments focus on quantum electrodynamics (QED) and atomic structure studies for heavy few-electron ions as well as on atomic collision studies with particular emphasis on electron impact phenomena [11,19–23]. In the following, we concentrate on the experimental techniques used at the heavy-ion storage ring ESR. At the ESR, the interaction of ion beams with matter can be studied under single collision conditions at the internal gasjet target where particle densities in the range between 1012 p/cm3 and 1014 p/cm3 are provided. Most important and in contrast to conventional single-pass experiments at accelerators, no active or passive beam collimation is required at the ESR. This furnishes almost completely background-free experimental conditions. A further unique feature of the ESR is the deceleration capability of the storage ring. It enables us to perform atomic collision experiments for highly-charged ions in a new and previously unaccessible energy and charge-state domain, i.e. for highest atomic charges (e.g. U92+ ) at energies far below their production energy [9,24]. In Fig. 1 (left side) typical experimental arrangement at the internal target of the storage ring is depicted. There, the ion/gas-jet interaction zone is surrounded by an array of solid state detectors allowing us to observe the projectile photon-emission at various observation angles in the range between almost 0◦ (4◦ to 10◦ ) to 150◦ . In addition, the photon emission can be observed in coincidence with electron capture or loss by using particle detectors located downstream from the interaction zone behind the next dipole magnet of the ring (in the figure only the detector for down-charged particles is shown). One remarkable aspect of the clean experimental environment at storage rings is that it even allows us to detect radiative projectile processes in anti-coincidence mode, e.g. bremsstrahlung. This is also displayed in Fig. 1. In the figure the total x-ray emission spectrum for U92+ → H2 collisions at 96 MeV/u is shown (upper part of the figure). The spectrum displayed in the middle part refers to x-rays associated with electron capture into the projectile. Besides the characteristic Lyα-transitions, radiative electron capture into the K-shell and the excited states of the projectile leads to the most pronounced x-ray lines in the spectrum. In the bottom part of the figure, the x-ray spectrum shown refers only to events that are not associated with projectile charge-exchange. Here, a pronounced structure in the tip-region of electron bremsstrahlung is clearly visible (compare

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Fig. 1. Left side: typical experimental arrangement at the internal target of the storage ring ESR [1, 2]. The ion/gas-jet interaction zone is surrounded by an array of solid state detectors. Right side: total x-ray emission spectrum (observation angle of θ = 90◦ ) recorded for U92+ → H2 collisions at 96 MeV/u (upper part), spectrum recorded in coincidence with electron capture (middle part), spectrum recorded in the anti-coincidence mode (bottom part) [6].

the structure marked with Ekin ). Obviously, the applied technique enables one to distinguish between radiative capture into the continuum and those into the bound-states of the projectile. This finding, which is currently being further exploited, offers a new road for the spectroscopy of cusp electrons in the tip region of the elementary electron-nucleus bremsstrahlung processes [25].

3 Photon angular distributions for radiative electron capture transitions One unique and common aspect of the current studies is that they allow to investigate with high-accuracy elementary atomic processes such as photonionization or electron-nucleus bremsstrahlung even for ions in high-charge states via their time-reversal in ion-atom collision. In these studies special emphasis was given to the photon-angular distribution which turned out to be particularly sensitive to the interplay of higher-order multipole contributions (retardation) and relativistic effects [41]. The high-accuracy achieved in these studies is due to the fact the REC lines are always observed together with the Lyα2 radiation in the spectra. Since the latter transition stems from the decay of the 2p1/2 and the 2s1/2 levels, the emission pattern for the Lyα2 transition is known to be isotropic in the emitter frame. Hence, normalization of the observed REC radiation to the Lyα2 intensity enables one to obtain directly the REC angular distribution in the emitter frame. For the latter purpose, only the transformation of the observation angle into the emitter frame is required. In Fig. 2 the measured differential cross-sections for REC into the K-shell of U92+ (U92+ → N2 at 307 MeV/u) are presented as a function of the observation angle (laboratory frame) as well as of the emission angle (emitter frame). In addition, the data are compared with predictions based on exact relativistic calculations. To facilitate a comparison of experimental and theoretical cross-sections, the measured angular distributions were normalized to the theoretical prediction at 90◦ . As seen in the figures, good agreement is obtained between the experimental data and the relativistic theory. In order to elucidate the necessity of a complete relativistic treatment for high-Z projectiles, the figure for the laboratory frame also includes the sin2 (θ)

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Fig. 2. Angular distribution for K-REC in the reaction U92+ → N2 at 309.7 MeV/u collision energy (solid circles) as a function of the observation angle θ (left side) as well as of the emission angle in the emitter frame (right side). The solid lines refer to relativistic calculations and the shaded areas to the spin-flip contributions [26, 27]. The sin2 θ shape of the nonrelativistic theory is indicated by dashed lines (left graph). The experimental data and the dashed lines are normalized to the result of the relativistic calculations at 90◦ .

distribution following from a nonrelativistic treatment which incorporates the full retardation as well as the Lorentz transformation to the laboratory frame. Obviously, the experimental data deviate considerably from symmetry around 90◦ . Most importantly, the large cross section observed close to 0◦ is attributed to spin-flip transitions which compensate the angular momentum carried away by the photon. This is a clear indication for the interaction of the electron magnetic moment with the magnetic field produced by the fast moving projectile. Therefore, this measurement of K-shell REC close to 0◦ provides an unambiguous identification of spin-flip transitions occurring in relativistic ion-atom collisions. It should be mentioned that in the relativistic Sauter approximation, in which the matrix element of the photoelectric effect is treated in the lowest order of αZ, spin-flip contributions at forward angles are not included. Hence, the present results show that higher orders in αZ (automatically contained in the exact wavefunctions) are needed. One may note that the electron angular distribution for photoionization can be obtained directly from the data displayed in Fig. 2 simply by considering the time-reversal situation which leads to the following relation between the photon emission angle in the emitter frame θ and the electron emission angle θem : θem = π − θ .

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4 Linear polarization studies for recombination transitions Another goal of our recent studies is to investigate the polarization features of the REC radiation. For this purpose 2D position-sensitive solid-state detectors were applied as Compton polarimeters. This technique exploits the sensitivity of the Compton scattering process on the linear polarization of the initial photon [28,29]. Following the Klein-Nishina formula, the differential cross-section for Compton scattering of a photon with initial energy
ω is given by
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ω
ω dσ 1 2
ω 2 2 = · r0 · + − 2 sin θc · cos ϕ . (2) dΩ 2
ω
ω
ω  where
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of the initial photon and the propagation direction of the scattered one (compare Fig. 3). For completeness we add the relation between
ω  and the scattering angle θc , given by
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where me c2 denotes the rest mass energy of the electron. Figure 3 displays the geometry of the detector arrangement with respect to the reaction plane as defined by the projectile ion beam and the direction of the emitted REC photons. For a coincidence event in any pair of the pixels satisfying the energy conservation condition, one pixel measures the energy of the Compton recoil electron (∆E) and the other one records the energy of the scattered photon (
ω  ) or vice versa. In the right part of Fig. 3 sample sum energy spectra (∆E +
ω  ) for the observation angle of 90◦ at 400 MeV/u U92+ → N2 collisions are shown. While the white area depicts the sum energy spectrum for Compton scattering within the collision plane (ϕ = 0◦ ), the grey area (ϕ = 90◦ ) refers to scattering orthogonal to it. Following Fig. 3, Compton scattering of the K-REC radiation perpendicular to the collision plane appears strongly enhanced compared to the scattering into the parallel direction and the effect of polarization shows up particularly pronounced for the intensity ratio. We note, that within the detector the scattering angle ϕ is defined by the relative position of the two pixels involved. Because of the matrix structure of the pixel arrangement there is always a further combination of two pixels with the angle ϕ + 90◦ which exhibits the same scattering geometry (solid angle, distance). Therefore, experimentally, this ratio has the additional advantage of an internal intensity normalization Iϕ /Iϕ+90◦ which allows one to substantially reduce the influence of possible systematic uncertainties. Since in this experiment a 4 × 4 pixel detector system with a relatively large pixel size of 7 × 7 mm2 has been applied, this technique is of crucial importance. For the particular case of the 90◦ observation angle at 400 MeV/u, we plot in Fig. 4 the normalized intensity distribution Iϕ /Iϕ+90◦ as a function of the scattering angle ϕ (compare solid points) [30]. The figure shows a strong intensity variation for Compton scattering as a function of the scattering angle. As seen in the figure, pronounced maxima occur perpendicular to the collision plane appear whereas minima occur parallel to this plane. This finding underlines

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Fig. 4. Linear photon polarization observed for K-REC in U92+ → N2 collisions at 400 MeV/u. Left side: the normalized intensity distribution Iϕ /Iϕ+90◦ obtained at the observation angle of 90◦ . Right side: the measured polarization as a function of the photon emission angle (emitter system). For comparison, the results of rigorous relativistic calculations are given: 98 MeV/u dashed line; 400 MeV/u full line; 800 MeV/u dotted line [31–33].

Fig. 5. Left side: 2D plot for Compton scattered photons as observed at an observation angle of 90◦ for Xe54+ → H2 collisions at 150 MeV/u. Right side: preliminary azimuthal angular dependence for Compton scattering at 90◦ . The full line represent the result of a least square adjustment of the Klein-Nishina formula to the data [36].

also the strength of the applied technique since the orientation of the polarization plane can be detected with a high level of accuracy. In addition, in Fig. 4, the linear polarization obtained for U92+ → N2 collisions at 400 MeV/u is depicted in comparison with exact relativistic calculations as a function of the photon emission angle (emitter system). As can be seen from the figure, the degree of linear polarization depends on both the observation angle as well as on the collision energy. Obviously, the degree of polarization is decreasing with increasing beam energy but also with decreasing emission angle. This has to be attributed to the occurrence of higher-multipole orders similarly as it has been observed for the case of the photon angular distributions. Moreover, it is interesting to note that for high collision energies Tp
500 MeV/u and for photon emission in the forward direction, a fully relativistic treatment of the electron–photon interaction predicts a negative (degree of) linear polarization already known from theoretical photoionization studies [34,35]. One may note that within the non-relativistic dipole-approximation, a 100% linear polarization is expected. Of course this is at strong variance with our present finding for the case of bare uranium (Z = 92). However, already for medium Z ions such as bare xenon (Z = 54) at moderate energies of close to 150 MeV/u, a strong increase of the linear polarization for the K-REC radiation is observed. The preliminary 2D spectrum for the Compton scattered photons as observed at an observation angle of 90◦ for Xe54+ → H2 collisions at 150 MeV/u is displayed in Fig. 5. In the figure, the dipolar shape of the intensity distribution is clearly visible and is pointing to a very strong linear polarization of the K-REC radiation. In addition, we plot at the right side of Fig. 5 the azimuthal angular dependence for Compton scattering at 90◦ as well as the result of a least square adjustment of the Klein-Nishina formula to the preliminary data

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(full line in the figure) [36]. These data were recorded with a novel 2D Si(Li) strip detector where both the front- and the backward side of the crystal consist of 32 strips each with a pitch of 2 mm [36,37]. The two sets of strips are oriented perpendicular to each other allowing one to determine the x- and y-position of interaction inside the detector. Because of the precisely defined pixel geometry, polarization studies can now be performed with high efficiency. Any internal intensity normalization as it was required for the first polarization study based on the 4 × 4 pixel detector system is no longer required. Finally we like to comment on the future novel possibility to detect the orientation of the polarization plane with high accuracy as discussed above. This finding is of great importance for experiments aiming to control the spin-polarization of stored particles. As examples we like to mention various experiments for the test of the standard model via the search of an electric dipole-moment of elementary particles as well as the study of parity violation effects in simple atomic systems at high-Z [3–5]. Recently, detailed theoretical investigations [38] predicted that the process of REC may reveal a possible spin polarization of the particles involved in the interaction (electrons or ions). Here, the spin polarization of the particles leads to a rotation of the photon polarization vector out of the scattering plane. Experimentally, this topic can now be addressed with high efficiency by this new generation of solid state detectors capable of providing energy as well as position information.

5 Alignment studies of the 2p3/2 decay in hydrogen-like uranium If the magnetic sublevels with different absolute magnetic quantum numbers |µ| are populated non-statistically in collisions of ions with electrons or atoms, then the pertinent state is said to be aligned. This leads to an anisotropic emission pattern as well as to polarization of the emitted x-rays. For the case of electron impact excitation, detailed alignment studies have been reported for H- and He-like ions in the medium and high-Z range. For the case of H-like ions, a slight but systematic deviation from a proper theoretical treatment has been observed which is presently the subject of detailed investigation [19–23]. Here, we consider the alignment of excited states caused by radiative electron capture into the 2p3/2 level which has been studied in great detail via angular distribution measurements. For the particular case of the pure electric dipole decay of the 2p3/2 state this angular distribution is given by [39] 
3 2 W (θ) ∝ 1 + β20 1 − sin θ (4) 2 where θ is the angle between the direction of the deexcitation photon and the beam direction (emitter frame) while β20 denotes the anisotropy coefficient. In the case of the 2p3/2 level, the anisotropy coefficient can be expressed as: β20 =

1 σ( 32 , ± 32 ) − σ( 32 , ± 12 ) · , 2 σ( 32 , ± 32 ) + σ( 32 , ± 12 )

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Here σ(3/2, µn ) describes the population of substate µn of the 2p3/2 level. Based on expression (5), the theoretical and observed angular distributions were compared in detail and a remarkable difference was found [39]. This deviation was surprising also in the sense that REC is otherwise one of the best studied processes for high-Z, hydrogen-like ions for which an excellent agreement between theory and experiment is typically found. However, viewing the used rigorous relativistic calculations in more detail one finds that the only approximation applied regards the structure of the high-Z H-like systems. Here, it is assumed that the level of interest, namely the 2p3/2 state, decays solely by an electric dipole transition. Whereas this assumption is for sure an excellent approach for the low-Z regime, at high-Z however, the magnetic quadrupole decay M2 may contribute in addition and may affect considerably the emission characteristics of the decay photons (angular distribution and polarization) [40]. As a result, the alignment coefficient parameter β20 must now be replaced by the product β20 · f (E1, M 2)

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Fig. 6. The alignment parameter β20 for the 2p3/2 observed for U92+ → N2 collisions (full circles) and for U92+ → H2 collisions (solid triangles). In all cases, REC into excited states is the dominant capture mechanism. The full line corresponds to theoretical findings taking into account the interference term (f (E1, M 2) = 1.28). In case of the dashed line, the interference term is neglected.

where f (E1, M 2) is the structure function which takes into account the interference effect. This structure function is given by [41,42] √  M 2  f (E1, M 2) ∝ 1 + 2 3  E1 

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where  E1  and  M 2  are the reduced matrix elements for the electric and the magnetic bound–bound multipole transitions, respectively [43]. For high-Z ions the ratio of the transiton amplitudes is of the order ∼ 0.1, leading to a 1% contribution of the M2 component to the total decay rate. Indeed, even for hydrogen-like uranium (Z = 92) the M2 transition rate contributes less than 1% to the total decay rate. Here it is important to note that the E1–M2 interference term does not affect the transition probabilities and hence the lifetimes. One may also note, that since the function f (E1, M 2) basically depends only on the transition amplitudes, its scaling follows roughly a Z2 dependence. As a consequence the interference leads to a non-negligible effect of a few percent even for medium-Z ions. In Fig. 6 we compare the experimental results for H-like uranium (solid points) with the corresponding theoretical findings (full line) and the results obtained assuming f (E1, M 2) = 1 (dotted line), i.e. neglecting the interference term. Note, for H-like uranium the structure parameter f (E1, M 2) reaches a value of 1.28. From the figure it is evident that the former departure of the theoretical results from the experimental values is removed when taking the interference term into account. This proves the importance of the interference between the E1 and M2 decay branches for the decay of the 2p3/2 state. We only mention here that cascade feeding of the 2p3/2 state, which could not be separated in the experiment, is incorporated into the theoretical analysis as described previously. For details of the experimental analysis we refer the reader to Ref. [39]. Finally, we like to emphasize an interesting application of our findings as discussed above. The ratio of transition amplitudes can also be derived from the experimental data by a least square adjustment of Eq. (6) treating the structure function f (E1, M 2) as a free parameter. 2 As a result we obtain for M E1 a value of 0.079 ± 0.013 and consequently for the ratio of the transition amplitudes 0.061 ± 0.002. To the best of our knowledge, currently there is no other experimental method available to obtain such an accurate information on the contribution of higher-order multipoles to the decay of excited atomic states.

6 Summary In this review, the current experimental and theoretical status on the exploration of radiative processes involving relativistic heavy ions is discussed. The measured photon angular distributions for REC into bare uranium elucidate the role of retardation and higher-order multipole

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effects for the elementary process of photoionization of simple atomic systems at high-Z and underlines the importance of the coupling of electron spin to the magnetic field of the fast moving ion. As has been shown, even the polarization features of the REC can nowadays be accessed experimentally with high-accuracy, showing that REC in ion-atom collisions is an intense source of strongly polarized hard x-rays. Most importantly, the possibility to determine unambiguously the polarization plane of the radiation is not only of relevance for experiments related to fundamental physics such as tests of the standard model but can also be applied to a broad range of experiments including applications in astrophysics or the diagnostics of intense laser matter interaction. Finally, the alignment studies revealed the importance of higher-order multipole transitions via interference effects which have been identified for the very first time for atomic systems. Most interesting, it has been shown that by measuring the alignment parameter in collision experiment, atomic structure data (decay rates and amplitudes) can be obtained with high-accuracy which is not accessible via conventional lifetime experiments. Here we have to stress the importance of this finding for any atomic or ionic system in the high-Z regime where either vacancy production or the population of an excited state gives rise to photon emission. In all cases where beside the leading multipolarity of the decay photons a higher-order multipole order is allowed, the polarization and angular distribution of the photon emission might be affected considerably. In the future, angular correlation and polarization studies will be extended also towards the two-photon emission from high-Z ions where the higher-order multipoles may result in an asymmetry in the photon-photon emission [44] or give rise to a significant change in their polarization [45]. These activities are part of the research program conceived within the SPARC collaboration of FAIR [46]. The support by the DAAD (A.K., No. A/05/52927) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (M.T.) is gratefully acknowledged. DB is supported by Polish Ministry of Education and Science under Grant No. 1P03B00629. The support by I3 EURONS (EC contract no. 506065) is gratefully acknowledged.

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