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We study nonperturbative multiphoton electron-positron pair creation in ultrastrong electromagnetic fields formed by two counterpropagating pulses with elliptic polarization. Our numerical approach allows us to take into account the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. Polarization effects in this process are important for a number of physical problems. We discuss a probability of this process for circularly polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Yu. Ivanov , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

Solutions of a kinetic equation are investigated which describe, on a nonperturbative basis, the vacuum creation of quasiparticle electron-positron pairs due to a strong laser field. The dependence of the quasiparticle electron (positron)…

Superradiance can cause the axion cloud around a rotating black hole to reach extremely high densities, and the decay of these axions can produce a powerful laser. The electric field of these lasers is strong enough that the Schwinger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-15 Bradley Shapiro

The availability of ever stronger, laser-generated electromagnetic fields underpins continuing progress in the study and application of nonlinear phenomena in basic physical systems, ranging from molecules and atoms to relativistic plasmas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 M. Marklund , T. G. Blackburn , A. Gonoskov , J. Magnusson , S. S. Bulanov , A. Ilderton

We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. Polarization effects in this process are important for a number of physical problems. A probability of this process for circularly or linearly polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Yu. Ivanov , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

The behavior of a twisted electron colliding with a linearly polarized laser pulse is investigated within relativistic quantum mechanics. In order to better fit the real experimental conditions, we introduce a Gaussian spatial profile for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 I. A. Aleksandrov , D. A. Tumakov , A. Kudlis , V. A. Zaytsev , N. N. Rosanov

The acceleration of ions in the interaction of circular polarized laser pulses with overdense plasmas is investigated. For circular polarization laser pulses, the quasi-equilibrium for electrons is established due to the light pressure and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-12-26 X. Q. Yan , C. Lin , Z. M. Sheng , Z. Y. Guo , B. C. Liu , Y. R. Lu , J. X. Fang , J. E. Chen

Spin-polarized particle beams are of interest for applications like deep-inelastic scattering, e.g. to gain further understanding of the proton's nuclear structure. With the advent of high-intensity laser facilities, laser-plasma-based…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Lars Reichwein , Zheng Gong , Chuan Zheng , Liangliang Ji , Alexander Pukhov , Markus Büscher

We present the results of the calculation of the electron-positron pair creation probability by the circularly polarized electromagnetic wave during its propagation in underdense collisionless plasmas. The dependence of the probability on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. S. Bulanov

The dynamics of fast (e, 2e) collisions, induced by the impact of twisted electron beams, on atomic hydrogen, is analyzed in the presence of a laser field with circular and linear polarization. For the (e,2e) differential cross-section…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Neha , Rakesh Choubisa

As an extension of the previous work [arXiv: 1512.02411], we have investigated the role of circularly polarized (CP) laser pulses while keeping other conditions the same. It is found that in the presence of large scale pre-formed plasmas,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 D. Wu , S. I. Krasheninnikov , S. X. Luan , W. Yu

We examine a regime in which a linearly-polarized laser pulse with relativistic intensity irradiates a sub-critical plasma for much longer than the characteristic electron response time. A steady-state channel is formed in the plasma in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 A. V. Arefiev , V. N. Khudik , A. P. L. Robinson , G. Shvets , L. Willingale , M. Schollmeier

We evidence the existence of plasma oscillations of electrons-positron pairs created by the vacuum polarization in an uniform electric field with E < Ec. Our general treatment, encompassing also the traditional, well studied case of E > Ec,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Ruffini , G. V. Vereshchagin , S. -S. Xue

We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. A probability of this process for circularly or linearly polarized laser photons and for arbitrary polarization of all other particles is calculated. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Yu. Ivanov , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

The problem of the backreaction during the process of electron-positron pair production by a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave propagating in a plasma is investigated. A model based on the relativistic Boltzmann-Vlasov equation with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 S. S. Bulanov , A. M. Fedotov , F. Pegoraro

Highly polarized, multi-kiloampere-current electron bunches from compact laser-plasma accelerators are desired for numerous applications. Current proposals to produce these beams suffer from intrinsic limitations to the reproducibility,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Simon Bohlen , Zheng Gong , Michael J. Quin , Matteo Tamburini , Kristjan Põder

Using the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner (DHW) formalism, e?ects of asymmetric pulse shape on the generation of electron-positron pairs in three typical polarized fields, i.e., the linear, middle elliptical and circular ones, are investigated. Two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Obulkasim Olugh , Zi-Liang Li , Bai-Song Xie

Exploring quantum electrodynamics in the most extreme conditions, where electron-positron pairs can emerge in the presence of a strong background field, is now becoming possible in Compton collisions between ultraintense lasers and…

Polarization and radiation reaction (RR) effects in the interaction of a superintense laser pulse (I > 10^23 W/cm^2) with a thin plasma foil are investigated with three dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. For a linearly…

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