Electron-positron pair production in an arbitrary polarized ultrastrong laser field
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-11 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
Electron-positron pair production in an arbitrary polarized ultrastrong laser field is investigated in the first order perturbation approximation in which the Volkov states are used for convenient calculation of scattering amplitude and cross section. It is found surprisingly that the optimal pair production depends strongly on the polarization. For some cases of field parameters, the optimal field is elliptically polarized or evenly circularly polarized one, rather than the usual linear polarization as indicated by previous works. Some insights into pair generation are given and some interesting unexpected features are also discussed briefly.
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@article{arxiv.1208.2077,
title = {Electron-positron pair production in an arbitrary polarized ultrastrong laser field},
author = {Liang-Yong He and Bai-Song Xie and Xin-Heng Guo and Hong-Yu Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2077},
year = {2015}
}
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20 pages, 10 figures