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The emission of electron-positron pairs off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic (e.g.\ laser) wave field is analyzed. A significant increase of the total cross section of pair production in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 A. I. Titov , H. Takabe , B. Kampfer , A. Hosaka

Creation of electrons and positrons from light alone is a basic prediction of quantum electrodynamics, but yet to be observed. Here we show that it is possible to create ${>}10^8$ positrons by dual laser irradiation of a structured plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Y. He , T. G. Blackburn , T. Toncian , A. V. Arefiev

The process of pair creation by a photon in a constant and homogeneous electric field is investigated basing on the polarization operator in the field. The total probability of the process is found in a relatively simple form. At high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

The process of electron-positron pair creation by a high-energy electron in a medium is analyzed. The spectral distribution over energies of created particles is calculated for the direct and cascade mechanisms of the process. The Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-19 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

The mechanism of laser-driven relativistic pair-jet production qualitatively changes as laser intensity exceeds $I\gtrsim5\times10^{22}$ W/cm$^{2}$ because of the appearance of laser-induced strong-field QED processes. Here, we show that by…

In the quasistatic regimes of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler and trident pair creation, the rates can exhibit a non-analytic dependency on the fundamental coupling of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in a form similar to Schwinger vacuum pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-05 B. King , S. Tang

Cross section of the processes of neutral pion production as well as pairs of charged fermions and bosons in peripherical interaction of leptons, photons are calculated in main logarithmical approximation. We investigate the phase volumes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. I. Ahmadov , M. V. Galynskii , Yu. M. Bystritskiy , E. A. Kuraev , M. G. Shatnev

Theory of the transition radiation and the transition pair creation is developed in the frame of QED. The spectral-angular distributions of probability of the transition radiation and of the transition pair creation are found. The total…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

The process of electron-positron pair creation through multi-photon absorption in a space-time dependent electric field is analyzed using computational quantum field theory. Our findings reveal two distinct pair creation channels: the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 C. K. Li , X. X. Zhou , Q. Chen , B. An , Y. J. Li , N. S. Lin , Y. Wan

We present a detailed phenomenological study of photoproduction of two hadrons, both with high transverse momentum, in longitudinally polarized lepton-nucleon collisions. We consistently include ``direct'' and ``resolved'' photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 C. Hendlmeier , M. Stratmann , A. Schafer

The recent developments of high intensity ultra-short laser pulses have raised the hopes of observing Schwinger vacuum pair production which is one of the important non-perturbative phenomena in Quantum electrodynamics (QED). The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Cesim K. Dumlu

The process of $e^+e^-$ production in the superposition of a Coulomb and a strong laser field is considered. The pair production rate integrated over the momentum and summed over the spin projections of one of the particles is derived…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 A. Di Piazza , A. I. Milstein , C. Müller

The process of pair creation by a photon in a strong magnetic field is investigated basing on the polarization operator in the field. The total probability of the process is found in a relatively simple form. The probability exhibits a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

Pair production in a constant electric field is closely analogous to bubble nucleation in a false vacuum. The classical trajectories of the pairs are Lorentz invariant, but it appears that this invariance should be broken by the nucleation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-25 Jaume Garriga , Sugumi Kanno , Misao Sasaki , Jiro Soda , Alexander Vilenkin

The momentum signatures in nonperturbative multiphoton pair production for general elliptic polarization electric fields are investigated by employing the real-time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. For a linearly polarized electric field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-17 Z. L. Li , D. Lu , B. S. Xie , B. F. Shen , L. B. Fu , J. Liu

The process of the lepton pair production by a neutrino propagating in an external electromagnetic field is investigated in the framework of the Standard Model. Relatively simple exact expression for the probability as the single integral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Kuznetsov , N. V. Mikheev , D. A. Rumyantsev

In this article, we have explored the very important quantity of lepton pair production from a hot and dense QCD medium in presence of an arbitrary external magnetic field for simultaneous nonzero values of both the parallel (along the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Aritra Das , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Chowdhury Aminul Islam

We investigate pair production of selectrons in electron-electron-scattering with subsequent decay into an electron and the LSP including ISR and beamstrahlung. This process can be used at a linear collider to measure the selectron masses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Bloechinger , H. Fraas , T. Mayer

The electromagnetic current of bound systems in the light-front is constructed in the Breit-Frame, in the limit of momentum transfer $q^+=(q^0+q^3)$ vanishing. In this limit, the pair creation term survives and it is responsible for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 J. P. B. C de Melo , J. H. O. Sales , T. Frederico , P. U. Sauer

In this work we study the production of electron-positron pairs from vacuum in presence of a field resulting from the collision of two counter-propagating FEL beams that undergo Gaussian amplitude fluctuations. Our work aims to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 G. Mouloudakis , P. Lambropoulos