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Non-linear Breit-Wheeler $e^+e^-$ pair production and its crossing channel - the non-linear Compton process - in the multi-photon regime are analyzed for linearly and circularly polarized short laser pulses. The contribution of multi-photon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 A. I. Titov , A. Otto , B. Kampfer

In this study we explore the possibility of using the process of electron-positron pair creation in strong laser fields as a tool for measuring the intensity of the corresponding laser radiation. In the initial state we consider either free…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 I. A. Aleksandrov , A. A. Andreev

Plasma based acceleration is considered a promising concept for the next generation of linear electron-positron colliders. Despite the great progress achieved over last twenty years in laser technology, laser and beam driven particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 S. S. Bulanov , C. Benedetti , D. Terzani , C. B. Schroeder , E. Esarey , T. Blackburn , M. Marklund

The momentum spectrum and the number density of created electron-positron pairs in a frequency modulated laser field are investigated using quantum kinetic equation. It is found that the momentum spectrum presents obvious interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 C. Gong , Z. L. Li , B. S. Xie , Y. J. Li

Generation of antimatter via the multiphoton Breit-Wheeler process in an all-optical scheme will be made possible on forthcoming high-power laser facilities through the collision of wakefield-accelerated GeV electrons with a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Mathieu Lobet , Xavier Davoine , Emmanuel d'Humières , Laurent Gremillet

Direct production of electron--positron pairs in two photon collisions, the Breit--Wheeler process, is one of the basic processes in the Universe. However, it has never been observed in laboratory because of absence of the intense gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-13 X. Ribeyre , M. Lobet , E. D'Humières , O. Jansen , S. Jequier , V. T. Tikhonchuk

The interaction of an unpolarized electron beam with a counterpropagating ultraintense linearly polarized laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. We employ a semiclassical Monte Carlo method to describe…

This work provides an overview of our recent results in studying two most important and widely discussed quantum processes: electron-positron pairs production off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Alexander I. Titov , Burkhard Kampfer , Atsushi Hosaka , Hideaki Takabe

The creation of polarized electron-positron pairs by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process in short laser pulses is investigated using the Baier-Katkov semiclassical method beyond local-constant-field approximation (LCFA), which allows for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Jing-Jing Jiang , Ya-Nan Dai , Kai-Hong Zhuang , Yunquan Gao , Suo Tang , Yue-Yue Chen

The magnificent development of strong X-ray lasers motivates the advancement of pair production process studies into higher laser frequency region. In this paper, a resonant electron-positron pair production process with the absorption of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Huayu Hu , Jie Huang

With the rapid development of high-power petawatt class lasers worldwide, exploring physics in the strong field QED regime will become one of the frontiers for laser-plasma interactions research. Particle-in-cell codes, including quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Qian Qian , Daniel Seipt , Marija Vranic , Thomas E. Grismayer , Tom G. Blackburn , Christopher P. Ridgers , Alexander G. R. Thomas

At laser intensities above 1023W/cm2 the interaction of a laser with a plasma is qualitatively different to the interactions at lower intensities. In this intensity regime solid targets start to become relativistically underdense, gamma-ray…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. S. Brady , C. P. Ridgers , T. D. Arber , A. R. Bell

The advent of laser-driven high-intensity $\gamma$-photon beams has opened up new opportunities for designing advanced photon-photon colliders. Such colliders have the potential to produce a large yield of linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) pairs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-31 Qian Zhao , Yan-Xi Wu , Mamutjan Ababekri , Zhong-Peng Li , Liang Tang , Jian-Xing Li

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

The nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process of electron-positron pair production off a probe photon colliding with a low-frequency and a high-frequency electromagnetic wave that propagate in the same direction is analyzed. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-01 Yuan-Bin Wu , She-Sheng Xue

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

Vacuum polarization is numerically investigated for the interaction between a GeV electron beam and a counterpropagating ultraintense laser pulse in the quantum radiation dominated-regime (QRDR). We identify a signal of vacuum polarization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Jia-Ding Chen , Ya-Nan Dai , Kai-Hong Zhuang , Jing-Jing Jiang , Baifei Shen , Yue-Yue Chen

We discuss a scheme of nonperturbative pair production by high energy photons ($\omega\gtrsim m$) in a strong external field achievable at the next high intensity laser experiments. The pair momentum is boosted and for $\omega\gtrsim 1.2m$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-14 Pisin Chen , Lance Labun

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…

As a fundamental QED process, linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) pair production predicted 90 years ago has not yet been demonstrated in experiments with real photons. Here, we propose an experimentally advantageous scheme to detect the LBW signal…