https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10991-w
Letter
Generation of vortex particles via generalized measurements
1
School of Physics and Engineering, ITMO University, 197101 St., Petersburg, Russia
2
European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869, Schenefeld, Germany
3
Novosibirsk State University, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
4
Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
Received:
25
August
2022
Accepted:
1
November
2022
Published online:
9
November
2022
The hard X-ray twisted photons and relativistic massive particles with orbital angular momentum – vortex electrons, muons, protons, etc. – have many potential applications in high-energy and nuclear physics. However, such states can be obtained so far mainly via diffraction techniques, not applicable for relativistic energies. Here we show that the vortex states of different particles, including hadrons, ions, and nuclei, can be generated in a large class of processes with two final particles simply by altering a postselection protocol. Thanks to entanglement and to the uncertainty relations, an evolved state of a final particle becomes twisted if the momentum azimuthal angle of the other particle is measured with a large uncertainty. We give several examples, including Cherenkov and undulator radiation, particle collisions with intense laser beams, . This technique can be adapted for ultrarelativistic lepton and hadron beams of linear colliders, and it can also facilitate the development of sources of X-ray and
-range twisted photons at storage rings and free-electron lasers.
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