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Pair creation by a $\gamma$ ray in a high-intensity electromagnetic field (the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process) is sensitive to the $\gamma$-ray polarisation. Here we study the stability required in order to measure this polarisation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Mathias Samuelsson , Thomas G. Blackburn

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

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

Electron-positron pair production by means of vacuum polarization in the presence of strong electromagnetic (EM) field of two counterpropagating laser pulses is studied. A 3-dimensional model of the focused laser pulses based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Chitradip Banerjee , Manoranjan P. Singh

Plasma acceleration is considered a prospective technology for building a compact multi-TeV electron-positron collider in the future. The challenge of this endeavor is greater for positrons than for the electrons because usually the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Dominika Maslarova , Bertrand Martinez , Marija Vranic

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 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

An electromagnetic pair-creation cascade seeded by an electron or a photon in an intense plane wave interacts in a complicated way with the external field. Many simulations neglect the vector nature of photons by including their interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-29 B. King , N. Elkina , H. Ruhl

In a previous paper we showed how higher-order strong-field-QED processes in long laser pulses can be approximated by multiplying sequences of "strong-field Mueller matrices". We obtained expressions that are valid for arbitrary field shape…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Greger Torgrimsson

We propose an all-optical, single-laser-pulse scheme for generating dense, relativistic, strongly-magnetized electron-positron pair plasma. The scheme involves the interaction of an extremely intense ($I \gtrsim \SI{e24}{\watt/\cm^2}$)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Alexander Samsonov , Alexander Pukhov

Under quite generic assumptions the general expression is derived for the probability of circularly polarized photon emission from the longitudinally polarized electron and for the probability of pair creation of longitudinally polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

Production of electron-positron pairs in the collision of a high-energy photon with a high-intensity few-cycle laser pulse is studied. By utilizing the frameworks of laser-dressed spinor and scalar quantum electrodynamics, a comparison…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 M. J. A. Jansen , J. Z. Kamiński , K. Krajewska , C. Müller

Nonlinear QED interactions induce different polarization properties on a given probe beam. We consider the polarization effects caused by the photon-photon interaction in laser experiments, when a laser beam propagates through a constant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-03 Soroush Shakeri , Seyed Zafarollah Kalantari , She-Sheng Xue

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 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

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 only available analytical framework for investigating QED processes in a strong laser field systematically relies on approximating the latter as a plane wave. However, realistic high-intensity laser beams feature much more complex…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 A. Di Piazza

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 electromagnetic processes in linear colliders are discussed on the basis of quasiclassical operator method. The complete set of expressions is written down for spectral probability of radiation from an electron and pair creation by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

The creation of an electron-positron pair in the collision of two real photons, namely the linear Breit-Wheeler process, has never been detected directly in the laboratory since its prediction in 1934 despite its fundamental importance in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 L Esnault , E d'Humières , A Arefiev , X Ribeyre