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Recent results on production and decays of polarized top quarks are reviewed. Top quark pair production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation is considered near energy threshold. For longitudinally polarized electrons the produced top quarks and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek Jezabek

The electron-positron pair production accompanying interaction of a circularly polarized laser pulse with a foil is studied for laser intensities higher than $10^{24}$W cm$^{-2}$. The laser energy penetrates into the foil due to the effect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 I. Yu. Kostyukov , E. N. Nerush

Relativistic spin-polarized positron beams are indispensable for future electron-positron colliders to test modern high-energy physics theory with high precision. However, present techniques require very large scale facilities for those…

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-14 A. Gonoskov , I. Gonoskov , C. Harvey , A. Ilderton , A. Kim , M. Marklund , G. Mourou , A. M. Sergeev

We consider pair creation by collision of a couple of counterpropagating electromagnetic pulses with arbitrary frequency ratio, mostly in the context of setup with collision of optical and coherent hard X- (or gamma-) ray pulses. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 A. M. Fedotov , A. A. Mironov

The processes of neutrino production of electron-positron pairs, $\nu \bar\nu \to e^- e^+$ and $\nu \to \nu e^- e^+$, in a magnetic field of arbitrary strength, where electrons and positrons can be created in the states corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 A. V. Kuznetsov , D. A. Rumyantsev , V. N. Savin

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

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

The production of electron-positron pairs from vacuum by counterpropagating laser beams of linear polarization is calculated. In contrast to the usual approximate approach, the spatial dependence and magnetic component of the laser field…

We derive the spectrum and the total cross section of electromagnetic $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair production in the collisions of two nuclei at low relative velocity $\beta$. Both free-free and bound-free $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair production is considered.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 R. N. Lee , A. I. Milstein

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

The process of electron-positron pair production by a photon with subsequent annihilation to a single photon in a strong magnetic field has been studied. The general amplitude has been calculated and the process rate have been found in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-14 M. M. Diachenko , O. P. Novak , R. I. Kholodov

Recent studies of Schwinger pair production have demonstrated that the asymptotic particle spectrum is extremely sensitive to the applied field profile. We extend the idea of the dynamically assisted Schwinger effect from single pulse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-14 Florian Hebenstreit , François Fillion-Gourdeau

The specific features of nonlinear pair production and radiation processes in an ultratsrong rotating electric field are investigated, taking into account that this field models the antinodes of counterpropagating laser beams. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Erez Raicher , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

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

A process of the pair production by a circularly polarized photon in the field of unpolarized atomic electron has been considered in the Weizaecker-Williams approximation. The degree of longitudinal polarization of positron and electron has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Bytev , E. A. Kuraev , M. V. Galynskii , A. P. Potylitsyn

Electron-positron pairs may be produced near accreting black holes by a variety of physical processes, and the resulting pair plasma may be accelerated and collimated into a relativistic jet. Here we use a self-consistent dynamical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Monika Moscibrodzka , Charles F. Gammie , Joshua C. Dolence , Hotaka Shiokawa

Electron-positron pair production in an oscillating Sauter potential is investigated in the framework of the computational quantum field theory. It is found that for a Sauter potential well with oscillating width and depth simultaneously,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Li Wang , Binbing Wu , Baisong Xie

We investigate the process of creating electron-positron pairs from laser-matter interaction in pre-ionised foam targets using particle-in-cell simulations. A high-intensity laser pulse drives electrons via direct laser acceleration up to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Oliver Mathiak , Lars Reichwein , Alexander Pukhov

We consider the production of tau pairs by electron-positron colliding beams at the maximum cross section near the threshold. At this energy tau pairs are produced mostly in the s-wave which implies that the spin of the tau pairs are almost…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Yung Su Tsai