Coherent synchrotron radiation and radiative electron polarization

The process of radiative electron polarization through the mechanism of coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) has been considered in the semi-classical approach. The CSR process is characterized by increasing photon emission probability from each electron proportional to number of electrons in a bunch if the wavelength of the emitted photon is greater than the bunch length. Estimations for built-up polarization of the electron beam P(coh) and the self-polarization time T(coh) caused by CSR mechanism were obtained and the comparison with ones for incoherent synchrotron radiation was performed. Despite the low probability of spin-flip transitions a significant particle polarization can be achieved for comparatively low values of the Lorentz factor (gamma <= 100) due to the huge number of photons emitted by each electron.