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Photon emission by vortex particles accelerated in a linac

A. Yu. Murtazin1,*, G. K. Sizykh1,2, D. V. Grosman1, U. G. Rybak3, A. A. Shchepkin1,2, and D. V. Karlovets1,2,†

  • *Contact author: anton.murtazin@metalab.ifmo.ru
  • †Contact author: dmitry.karlovets@metalab.ifmo.ru
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Phys. Rev. D 113, 036024 – Published 25 February, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/g1xl-s2j5

Abstract

We study the photon emission by charged spinless particles with phase vortices and an orbital angular momentum (OAM) projection in longitudinal electric and magnetic fields within the scalar QED. A realistic wave packet of an electron or ion accelerated by a radiofrequency wave locally feels a constant and spatially homogeneous field, which allows us to develop an effective model for losing the angular momentum of the vortex particle due to photon emission. For the fields typical for accelerator facilities, we find that an effective lifetime of the vortex state greatly exceeds the acceleration time. This proves that the acceleration of vortex electrons, ions, muons, and so forth to relativistic energies is possible in conventional linacs, the OAM losses due to the photon emission are mostly negligible, and that the vortex quantum state is highly robust against these losses.

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Phys. Rev. D 113, 036024– Published 25 February, 2026
  • Received 11 December 2025
  • Accepted 29 January 2026
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