A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high power lasers
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-21 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
We present a proposal for testing the prediction of non-equilibrium quantum field theory below the Schwinger limit. The proposed experiments should be able to detect a measurable number of gamma rays resulting from the annihilation of pairs in the focal spot of two opposing high intensity laser beams. We discuss the dependence of the expected number of gamma rays with the laser parameters and compare with the estimated background level of gamma hits for realistic laser conditions.
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@article{arxiv.1005.3280,
title = {A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high power lasers},
author = {G. Gregori and D. B. Blaschke and P. P. Rajeev and H. Chen and R. J. Clarke and T. Huffman and C. D. Murphy and A. V. Prozorkevich and C. D. Roberts and G. Röpke and S. M. Schmidt and S. A. Smolyansky and S. Wilks and R. Bingham},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3280},
year = {2014}
}
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