Observable effects caused by vacuum pair creation in the field of high-power optical lasers
Optics
2009-11-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Plasma Physics
Abstract
We consider the possibility of an experimental proof of vacuum e+e- pair creation in the focus of two counter-propagating optical laser beams with an intensity of the order of 10^20 - 10^22 W/cm^2. Our approach is based on the collisionless kinetic equation for the distribution function of the e+e- pairs with the source term for particle production. As a possible experimental signal of vacuum pair production we consider the refraction of a high-frequency probe laser beam by the produced e+e- plasma to be observed by an interference filter. The generation of higher harmonics of the laser frequency in the self-consistent electric field is also investigated.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0612173,
title = {Observable effects caused by vacuum pair creation in the field of high-power optical lasers},
author = {David B. Blaschke and Andrey V. Filatov and Irina A. Egorova and Alexander V. Prozorkevich and Stanislav A. Smolyansky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0612173},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected, Eq.(16) corrected, reference added