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We study the pair-production process in the presence of two counterpropagating linearly polarized short laser pulses. By means of a nonperturbative technique, we take into account the full coordinate dependence of the external field going…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-10 I. A. Aleksandrov , G. Plunien , V. M. Shabaev

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)…

Electron-positron pair creation in collisions of a modulated laser pulse with a high-energy photon (nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process) is studied by means of strong-field quantum electrodynamics. It is shown that the driving pulse modulations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kamiński

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

Various methods of obtaining longitudinally polarized positrons for future linear colliders are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the schemes using circularly polarized high-energy photons for positron production. Most effectively such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Strakhovenko , X. Artru , R. Chehab , M. Chevallier

The use of an intense ultrashort laser pulse to induce electron polarization has been proposed in existing literature. The Python programming language is used to recreate the local constant crossed-field approximation (LCFA) with the aim of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Katherine D. Ranjbar , Emily Snyder , Alice Snyder , Vahid H. Ranjbar

Using a quantum kinetic equation coupled to Maxwell's equation we study the possibility that focused beams at proposed X-ray free electron laser facilities can generate electric field strengths large enough to cause spontaneous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Alkofer , M. B. Hecht , C. D. Roberts , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

The nonperturbative regime of electron-positron pair creation by a relativistic proton beam colliding with a highly intense bichromatic laser field is studied. The laser wave is composed of a strong low-frequency and a weak high-frequency…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-09 Sven Augustin , Carsten Müller

In the centre of mass frame, we have studied theoretically the $Z$-boson resonant production in the presence of an intense laser field via the weak process $e^+e^- \to \mu^+\mu^-$. Dressing the incident particles by a Circularly Polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-27 M. Ouali , M. Ouhammou , S. Taj , B. Manaut

When photons propagate in vacuum they may fluctuate into matter pairs thus allowing the vacuum to be polarised. This linear effect leads to charge screening and renormalisation. When exposed to an intense background field a nonlinear effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 A. J. Macleod , J. P. Edwards , T. Heinzl , B. King , S. V. Bulanov

The lowest order radiative corrections to the cross section and asymmetries measured in experiments on semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of polarized particles were calculated. Both exact and leading log expressions were presented…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-30 I. Akushevich , H. Avakian , A. Ilyichev , S. Srednyak

The nature of matter creation is one of the most basic processes in the universe. According to the quantum electrodynamics theory, matters can be created from pure light through the Breit Wheeler (BW) process. The multi-photon BW process…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Jinqing Yu , Haiyang Lu , T. Takahashi , Ronghao Hu , Zheng Gong , Wenjun Ma , Yongsheng Huang , Xueqing Yan

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

We numerically investigate the temporal behavior and the structure of longitudinal momentum spectrum and the field polarity effect on pair production in pulsed electric fields in scalar quantum electrodynamics (QED). Using the evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-24 Sang Pyo Kim , Hyung Won Lee , Remo Ruffini

We investigate electron-positron pair creation from the vacuum in a pulsed electric background field. Employing the Sauter-type pulsed field $E(t)=E_0 {\rm sech}^2 (t/\tau)$ with height $E_0$ and width $\tau$, we demonstrate explicitly the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-30 Hidetoshi Taya , Hirotsugu Fujii , Kazunori Itakura

The Sauter-Schwinger effect predicts the creation of electron-positron pairs out of the quantum vacuum by a strong and slowly varying electric field. This effect can be dynamically assisted by an additional weaker time-dependent field,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Greger Torgrimsson , Christian Schneider , Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

Polarized electron beam production via laser wakefield acceleration in pre-polarized plasma is investigated by particle-in-cell simulations. The evolution of the electron beam polarization is studied based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 L. R. Yin , X. F. Li , Y. J. Gu , N. Cao , Q. Kong , M. Buescher , S. M. Weng , M. Chen , Z. M. Sheng

A challenge to upcoming experiments that plan to collide a particle beam with laser pulses of moderate intensity is how to correctly incorporate quantum effects into simulation frameworks. Using a uniform approach, we extend the widely-used…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 B. King

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

Generation of ultrarelativistic polarized leptons during interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating ultraintense laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated domain. While the symmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Kai-Hong Zhuang , Yue-Yue Chen , Yan-Fei Li , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel