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Recently the dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism, i.e., electron-positron pair production from vacuum by a combination of laser pulses with different time scales has been proposed. The corresponding results, which suggest that the rate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-18 Markus Orthaber , Florian Hebenstreit , Reinhard Alkofer

QED-effects are known to occur in a strong laser pulse interaction with a counter-propagating electron beam, among these effects being electron-positron pair creation. We discuss the range of laser pulse intensities of J > 5*10^22 W/cm2…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees , Gerard A. Mourou

The Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism is employed to investigate electron-positron pair production in cylindrically symmetric but otherwise spatially inhomogeneous, oscillating electric fields. The oscillation frequencies are hereby tuned…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Christian Kohlfürst , Reinhard Alkofer

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

Ultra strong electromagnetic fields can lead to spontaneous creation of single or multiple electron-positron pairs. A quantum field theoretical treatment of the pair creation process combined with numerical methods provides a description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

The process of electron-positron pair creation and oscillation in uniform electric field is studied, taking into account Pauli exclusion principle. Generally, we find that pair creation is suppressed, hence coherent oscillations occur on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Mikalai Prakapenia , Gregory Vereshchagin

In this paper we consider the process of "subthreshold" electron-positron pairs creation in the region of laser conversion. The total number of positrons and their distribution are obtained. This phenomena is offered for use as a good test…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Kochanov , S. I. Polityko

Binary neutron star mergers can form short-lived magnetar-like remnants whose magnetically dominated polar towers reach $B\sim10^{15}$--$10^{16}\,\mathrm{G}$, but the microphysical composition of these outflows remains poorly understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Rostom Mbarek , Jiaxi Wu , Elias R. Most

We develop for dipole-forbidden transition a dynamical theory of two-photon paired superradiance, or PSR for short. This is a cooperative process characterized by two photons back to back emitted with equal energies. By irradiation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Yoshimura , N. Sasao , M. Tanaka

The process of nonlinear electron-positron pair production by an electron colliding with an arbitrary plane wave electromagnetic field (nonlinear trident pair production) is studied analytically and numerically. Special emphasis is put on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 F. Mackenroth , A. Di Piazza

Production of electron-positron pairs in the superposition of oscillating electric-field pulses with largely different frequencies is studied, focussing on the impact of relative phases between the pulses. Various field configurations are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 J. Braß , D. M. Müller , S. Villalba-Chávez , K. Krajewska , C. Müller

A new method for calculations of electron-positron pair-creation probabilities in low-energy heavy-ion collisions is developed. The approach is based on the propagation of all one-electron states via the numerical solving of the…

Electron-positron pair production in combined laser and Coulomb fields is studied. To this end, the Feynman diagram for multiphoton pair creation by muon impact on a circularly polarized high-frequency laser beam is evaluated within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-06 Sarah J. Müller , Carsten Müller

We present a detailed calculation of the electron-positron production rate using neutrinos in an intense laser field. The computation is done for the process neutrino to neutrino + electron + positron via the neutral channel and within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Todd M. Tinsley

The non-perturbative electron-positron pair production in time-dependent electric fields is investigated. The quantum kinetic formalism is employed in order to calculate the electron density for various field configurations. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-06 Christian Kohlfürst

The process of neutrino production of electron positron pairs in a magnetic field of arbitrary strength, where electrons and positrons can be created in the states corresponding to excited Landau levels, is analysed. The mean value of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-15 A. V. Kuznetsov , D. A. Rumyantsev , V. N. Savin

The particle creation by the so-called peak electric field is considered. The latter field is a combination of two exponential parts, one exponentially increasing and another exponentially decreasing. We find exact solutions of the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-09 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

We discuss electron-positron pair-production by super-intense, short laser pulses off the physical vacuum state locally deformed by (stripped) nuclei with large nuclear charges. Consequences of non-perturbative vacuum polarisation resulting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Klaus Dietz , Michael Proebsting

The laser interaction with an electron-positron-ion mixed plasma is studied, from the perspective of the associated high-order harmonic generation. For an idealized mixed plasma which is assumed with a sharp plasma-vacuum interface and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 W. L. Zhang , T. Grismayer , K. M. Schoeffler , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

In ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions (UPCs), the broad energy spectrum of photons enables a variety of physical processes, ranging from lepton pair production to giant dipole resonances (GDRs). In this work, we evaluate production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Atacan Fatih Candar , Mehmet Cem Guclu