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Dynamically-assisted nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in bichromatic laser fields of circular polarization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-06-06 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

Production of electron-positron pairs by a high-energy γ\gamma photon and a bichromatic laser wave is considered where the latter is composed of a strong low-frequency and a weak high-frequency component, both with circular polarization. An integral expression for the production rate is derived that accounts for the strong laser mode to all orders and for the weak laser mode to first order. The structure of this formula resembles the well-known expression for the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process in a strong laser field, but includes the dynamical assistance from the weak laser mode. We analyze the dependence of the dynamical rate enhancement on the applied field parameters and show, in particular, that it is substantially higher when the two laser modes have opposite helicity.

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@article{arxiv.2306.02735,
  title  = {Dynamically-assisted nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in bichromatic laser fields of circular polarization},
  author = {N. Mahlin and S. Villalba-Chávez and C. Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02735},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures