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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

Electron-positron pair creation by multiphoton absorption in the collision of a relativistic electron with a strong laser beam is calculated within laser-dressed quantum electrodynamics. Total production rates, positron spectra, and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Huayu Hu , Carsten Müller , Christoph H. Keitel

We study Schwinger pair creation of charged particles due to the inhomogeneous electric field created by the thin electron layer at the surface of quark stars (the electrosphere). As suggested earlier, due to the low photon emissivity of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Harko , K. S. Cheng

The process of electron-positron pair creation by a high-energy electron in a medium is analyzed. The spectral distribution over energies of created particles is calculated for the direct and cascade mechanisms of the process. The Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-19 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

Electron-positron pair production from vacuum in a strong electric field oscillating in time is studied. The field is assumed to consist of two consecutive pulses, with variable time delay in between. Pair production probabilities are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 L. F. Granz , O. Mathiak , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

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

We study particle - antiparticle pair production under action of a strong time dependent space homogeneous electric field at the presence of a collinear constant magnetic field. We derive the kinetic equation for a such field configuration…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. V. Tarakanov , A. V. Reichel , S. A. Smolyansky , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

In this work we study the production of electron-positron pairs from vacuum in presence of a field resulting from the collision of two counter-propagating FEL beams that undergo Gaussian amplitude fluctuations. Our work aims to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 G. Mouloudakis , P. Lambropoulos

We investigate electron-positron pair production in pulse-shaped electric background fields using a non-Markovian quantum kinetic equation. We identify a pulse-length range for subcritical fields still in the nonperturbative regime where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Florian Hebenstreit , Reinhard Alkofer , Holger Gies

We investigate the spin correlations between electron-positron pairs created from a photon when it scatters in a high-intensity laser pulse via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. We find that the spin states of the generated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-10 S. Tang , B. M. Dillon , B. King

The process of electron-positron pair creation through multi-photon absorption in a space-time dependent electric field is analyzed using computational quantum field theory. Our findings reveal two distinct pair creation channels: the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 C. K. Li , X. X. Zhou , Q. Chen , B. An , Y. J. Li , N. S. Lin , Y. Wan

We study the electron-positron pair production process in strong background electric fields with spatio-temporal inhomogeneity in the time-dependent Basis Light-front Quantization approach. We calculate the observables such as the invariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-06 Zhiyu Lei , Bolun Hu , Xingbo Zhao

The new approach is developed for study of electron-positron pair production by a photon in oriented single crystal. It permits indivisible consideration of both coherent and incoherent mechanisms of pair creation and includes the action of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

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 vacuum of quantum electrodynamics is unstable against the formation of many-body states in the presence of an external electric field, manifesting itself as the creation of electron-positron pairs (Schwinger effect). This effect has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Florian Hebenstreit

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

We investigate electron-positron pair production from the vacuum in presence of a strong oscillating electric field with a multi-pulse structure and variable inter-pulse delay. The pair production probabilities are computed by numerically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Abhinav Jangir

The creation of particles by two colliding strong laser beams is considered. It is found that the electron-positron pairs created in the laser field via the Schwinger mechanism may recollide after one or several oscillations in the field.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-24 Michael Kuchiev , Julian Ingham

We consider the electron-positron pair creation by a photon in an external constant electric field. The presented treatment is based on a purely quasiclassical calculation of the imaginary part of the on-shell photon polarization operator.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-21 A. Monin , M. B. Voloshin

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