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Electron storage rings of GeV energy with laser pulse stacking cavities are promising intense sources of polarized hard photons which, via pair production, can be used to generate polarized positron beams. In this paper, the dynamics of electron bunches circulating in a storage ring and interacting with high-power laser pulses is studied both analytically and by simulation. Both the common features and the differences in the behavior of bunches interacting with an extremely high power laser pulse and with a moderate pulse are discussed. Also considerations on particular lattice designs for Compton gamma rings are presented.

The lattice of a laser-electron storage ring with a controlled momentum compaction factor dedicated to the generation of intense x rays under Compton scattering is described. In such a storage ring one can obtain large energy acceptance and keep the long-term stable motion of the electron beam with large energy spread. The intensity of x rays is stable due to the use of electron beam with steady-state parameters for Compton scattering. Parameters of the storage ring, electron beam, and x rays obtained by electron beam dynamics simulation involving both intrabeam and Compton scattering are presented.