Positron energy distribution in factorized trident process
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2022-01-05 v3
Abstract
We estimate the energy distribution of positrons produced in the interaction of ultra-relativistic electrons with a high-intensity laser beam. The underlying trident process is factorized on the probabilistic level. That is, we deploy a two-step mechanism for the formation of electron-positron pairs. In the first step, a high-energy photon is produced as a result of nonlinear Compton scattering. In the second step, an electron-positron pair is created by the nonlinear (multi-photon) Breit-Wheeler process.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.13043,
title = {Positron energy distribution in factorized trident process},
author = {A. I. Titov and U. Hernandez Acosta and B. Kampfer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13043},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
8 pages, 10 figures