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Treating the production of electron and positron pairs by a strong electric field from the vacuum as a quantum tunneling process we derive, in semiclassical approximation, a general expression for the pair production rate in a $z$-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Hagen Kleinert , Remo Ruffini , She-Sheng Xue

We consider atomic system of $\Lambda-$type 3-level coupled to 2 mode fields, and derive an effective Maxwell-Bloch equation designed for two photon emission between two lower levels. We find axially symmetric, topologically stable soliton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-26 M. Yoshimura , N. Sasao

Via a combination of analytical and numerical methods, we study electron-positron pair creation by the electromagnetic field ${\bf A}(t,{\bf r})=[f(ct-x)+f(ct+x)]{\bf e}_y$ of two colliding laser pulses. Employing a generalized WKB…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 Christian Kohlfürst , Naser Ahmadiniaz , Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

Sauter-Schwinger pair creation in electromagnetic fields is a fundamental prediction of QED and one of the motivations for the present efforts in constructing super-strong lasers. I will give a historical review of the subject, and then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 Christian Schubert

In this paper we consider the possibility and conditions for pair photoemission whereby two incident photons emit pairs of electrons from a candidate material as a novel method to measure and visualize electronic correlations. As opposed to…

Electron-positron pair production from vacuum in spatially inhomogeneous electric fields with quadratically symmetric chirp is studied within the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. The reduced momentum spectrum and the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Le Le Chen , Xiao-Ting Xu , Rong-An-Tang , Xue-Ren Hong , Lie-Juan Li , Bai-Song Xie

The optimal chirped field for enhancing electron-positron (EP) pair production is explored using a quantum kinetic approach. First, the momentum spectrum and number density of EP pairs produced by Gaussian chirped fields are investigated.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Z. L. Li , Y. F. Chen , R. Z. Jiang , Y. J. Li

We investigate electron-positron pair production in pulse-shaped electric background fields using a non-Markovian quantum kinetic equation. We identify a pulse-length range for subcritical fields still in the nonperturbative regime where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Florian Hebenstreit , Reinhard Alkofer , Holger Gies

Accessing the polarization of photon allows to understand the mechanisms behind its emission or scattering, revealing much about a peculiar environment or a probed object. For energy above $\sim$10~MeV, the pair production dominates the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-16 Maxime Defurne , Arthur Muhulet

We study the process of energy conversion from overcritical electric field into electron-positron-photon plasma. We solve numerically Vlasov-Boltzmann equations for pairs and photons assuming the system to be homogeneous and anisotropic.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-13 Alberto Benedetti , Remo Ruffini , Gregory Vereshchagin

A strong laser field and the Coulomb field of a nucleus can produce e^{+}e^{-} pairs. It is shown for the first time that there is a large probability that electrons and positrons created in this process collide after one or several…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Yu. Kuchiev

Electron-positron pair production is the essential process for high-energy gamma-ray astrophysical observations. Following the pioneering OSO-3 counter telescope, the field evolved into use of particle tracking instruments, largely derived…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 David J. Thompson , Alexander A. Moiseev

Heavy ions channeling through crystals with multi-GeV kinetic energies can create electron-positron pairs. In the framework of the ion, the energy of virtual photons arising from the periodic crystal potential may exceed the threshold…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Nikolay A. Belov , Zoltán Harman

The photo-production of a pair of scalar particles in the presence of an intense, circularly polarized laser beam is investigated. Using the optical theorem within the framework of scalar quantum electrodynamics, explicit expressions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-14 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Carsten Müller

Radiation spectrum of extreme relativistic electrons and a probability of electron-positron pair production by energetic photons in a strong plasma wakefield are derived in the framework of a semiclassical approach. It is shown that that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Nerush , I. Kostyukov

An electron-positron pair ($e^- e^+$) is created in vacuum above a critical electric field strength $E_{crt}$ which is quite large in the laboratory scale. The photon, thus the field, annihilates in the pair creation process. Here, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Mehmet Emre Tasgin

An analytic study is presented of the efficient multiphoton excitation and strong harmonic generation in three-level systems specified by a pair of nearly degenerate, strongly dipole-coupled excited states. Such systems are physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Michal Berent , Ryszard Parzyński

The recent proposal of photon and neutrino pair beam is extensively investigated. Production rates, both differential and total, of single photon, two-photon and neutrino-pair emitted from quantum ions in circular motion are calculated for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 M. Yoshimura , N. Sasao

General formulation in the realm of strong-field quantum electrodynamics is provided for a process that occurs in the presence of a train of laser pulses and, in the tree level, is represented by a two-vertex Feynman diagram with exchange…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-10 J. Z. Kamiński , K. Krajewska

Production of electron-positron pairs by a high-energy $\gamma$ 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.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 N. Mahlin , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller