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We investigate the conditions required for the production of electron-positron pairs above a pulsar polar cap (PC) and the influence of pair production on the energetics of the primary particle acceleration. Assuming space-charge limited…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alice K. Harding , Alexander G. Muslimov , Bing Zhang

Motivated by relativistic jets observed in active galactic nuclei (AGN), we simulate outflows of electron-positron pairs strongly coupled with photons from normal electron-proton plasmas. Using multi-fluid approximation and a Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Katsuaki Asano , Fumio Takahara

Electron-positron pair creation in collisions of a modulated laser pulse with a high-energy photon (nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process) is studied by means of strong-field quantum electrodynamics. It is shown that the driving pulse modulations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kamiński

The process of radiation from high-energy electron and electron-positron pair production by a photon in oriented single crystal is considered using the method which permits inseparable consideration of both coherent and incoherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

To probe the nonlinear effects of photon-photon interaction in the quantum electrodynamics, we study the generation of circular polarized photons by the collision of two linearly polarized laser beams. In the framework of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 Rohoollah Mohammadi , Iman Motie , She-Sheng Xue

Nonlinear Compton scattering driven by ultraintense lasers presents a promising avenue for enhancing the photon energy, brilliance, and setup compactness of $\gamma$-ray sources. However, a significant challenge lies in achieving a high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Xian-Zhang Wu , Yan-Fei Li , Yu-Tong Li

High-energy spin-polarized electron, positron, and $\gamma$-photon beams have many significant applications in the study of material properties, nuclear structure, particle physics, and high-energy astrophysics. Thus,efficient production of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Ting Sun , Qian Zhao , Kun Xue , Zhi-Wei Lu , Liang-Liang Ji , Feng Wan , Yu Wang , Yousef I. Salamin , Jian-Xing Li

Electron-positron pair production by the superposition of two laser pulses with different frequencies and amplitudes is analyzed as a particular realization of the assisted dynamic Schwinger effect. It is demonstrated that, within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky , A. Otto , B. Kaempfer , D. Blaschke , L. Juchnowski

The dynamics of an electron bunch irradiated by two focused colliding super-intense laser pulses and the resulting gamma and electron-positron production are studied. Due to attractors of electron dynamics in a standing wave created by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Jirka , O. Klimo , S. V. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , E. Gelfer , S. S. Bulanov , S. Weber , G. Korn

The new approach is developed for study of electron-positron pair production by a photon in oriented single crystal. It permits indivisible consideration of both coherent and incoherent mechanisms of pair creation and includes the action of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

We consider scattering of a photon on a short intense laser pulse at high energy. We argue that for ultra-short laser pulses the interaction is coherent over the entire length of the pulse. At low pulse intensity $I$ the total cross section…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kirill Tuchin

We study electron-positron pair production within two counter-propagating, circularly polarized electromagnetic fields through the Wigner formalism. We numerically generate high-resolution momentum maps to perform a detailed spectroscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-05 Christian Kohlfürst

We investigate electron-positron pair creation in the interaction of a nuclear Coulomb field and a highly intense two-mode laser field. For bichromatic laser fields, we examine the differences arising for commensurable and incommensurable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 Sven Augustin , Carsten Müller

We evaluate particle production in highly asymmetric head-on collisions of lasers pulses due to non-perturbative coherent action of many photons. We obtain the yield of electron-positron pairs, which is controlled by the photon content of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-29 Lance Labun , Johann Rafelski

We consider the possibility of experimental verification of vacuum e^+e^- pair creation at the focus of two counter-propagating optical laser beams with intensities 10^{20}-10^{22} W/cm^2, achievable with present-day petawatt lasers, and…

The planned generation of lasers and heavy ion colliders renews the hope to see electron-positron pair creation in strong classical fields (so called spontaneous pair creation). This adiabatic relativistic effect has however not been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Pickl , Detlef Duerr

Intense positron beams can be prepared via electro production with the reaction $e^{-} + e^{-} \rightarrow e^{-}+e^{+}+e^{-}+e^{-}$ due to the availability of high current electron beams. Head on collisions inside of a magnetic field of a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-07-14 Berthold Schoch

A detailed quantum-electrodynamic calculation of muon pair creation in laser-driven electron-positron collisions is presented. The colliding particles stem from a positronium atom exposed to a superintense laser wave of linear polarization,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carsten Müller , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

The paper reports the results of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of proton beam acceleration at the interactions of a 130 fs laser pulse of intensity from the range of 10^21-10^23 W/cm^2, predicted for the Extreme Light…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Jaroslaw Domanski , Jan Badziak , Slawomir Jablonski

Production of particle-antiparticle pairs by a high-energy probe photon propagating through a high-intensity laser field is considered in the nonperturbative interaction regime. The laser field consists of a strong low-frequency and a weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller