Probing nonperturbative QED with optimally focused laser pulses
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-08-14 v2 Plasma Physics
Abstract
We study nonperturbative pair production in intense, focused laser fields called e-dipole pulses. We address the conditions required, such as the quality of the vacuum, for reaching high intensities without initiating beam-depleting cascades, the number of pairs which can be created, and experimental detection of the created pairs. We find that e-dipole pulses offer an optimal method of investigating nonperturbative QED.
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@article{arxiv.1302.4653,
title = {Probing nonperturbative QED with optimally focused laser pulses},
author = {A. Gonoskov and I. Gonoskov and C. Harvey and A. Ilderton and A. Kim and M. Marklund and G. Mourou and A. M. Sergeev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4653},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 pdf figures. Version 2: extended discussion of cascades, references updated. To appear in PRL