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The nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process is studied in the presence of strong and short laser pulses. We show that for a relativistically intense plane-wave laser field many features of the momentum distribution of the produced electron-positron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-25 Sebastian Meuren , Christoph H. Keitel , Antonino Di Piazza

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

The focus of this article is on providing compact analytical expressions for the differential number of polarization flipped signal photons constituting the signal of vacuum birefringence in the head-on collision of x-ray free electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Felix Karbstein

The pair beaming in the Breit-Wheeler (BW) process is investigated. We examine the effect of the BW differential cross section on pair angular and energy distributions. Although, this study is relevant for laser induced intense gamma-ray…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 X Ribeyre , E Dhumières , S. Jequier , V. Tikhonchuk

Near-future experiments intend to detect strong-field Breit-Wheeler pair creation from the collision between bremsstrahlung bursts containing GeV-$\gamma$ quanta and high-intensity laser pulses. In this theoretical study, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-20 A. Eckey , A. Golub , F. C. Salgado , S. Villalba-Chávez , A. B. Voitkiv , M. Zepf , C. Müller

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

High energy photons can decay to electron-positron pairs via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process when colliding with an intense laser pulse. The energy spectrum of the produced particles is broadened because of the variation of their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-25 Suo Tang

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

We consider the process of electron-positron pair production in the presence of strong electric backgrounds being rapidly switched on and off and examine the total particle yield. For sufficiently sharp field profiles, the particle number…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-09 I. A. Aleksandrov , D. G. Sevostyanov , V. M. Shabaev

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

X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) utilize high-density and high-energy electron bunches which are well-suited to produce Compton back-scattering radiation. Here we study study interaction of such electron bunches during head-on collision…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Svitozar Serkez , Eugene Bulyak , Gianluca Geloni

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

Short-pulse effects are investigated for the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, i.e. the production of an electron-positron pair induced by a gamma photon inside an intense plane-wave laser pulse. To obtain the total pair-creation probability…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-29 Sebastian Meuren , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel , Antonino Di Piazza

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

The Breith-Wheeler resonant process has been theoretically studied in a strong X-ray electromagnetic wave field under conditions when the energy of one of the initial high-energy gamma quanta passes into the energy of a positron or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-08 S. P. Roshchupkin , V. D. Serov , V. V. Dubov

The possibility to observe vacuum electron-positron pair creation due to a powerful optical laser pulse is discussed. We employ a quantum kinetic formulation of the problem with a source term describing the vacuum pair production in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Blaschke , A. V. Prozorkevich , S. A. Smolyansky , A. V. Tarakanov

We study a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation which arises as an effective single particle model in X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFEL). This equation appears as a first-principles model for the beam-matter interactions that would take place in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Paolo Antonelli , Agissilaos Athanassoulis , Zhongyi Huang , Peter A. Markowich

The generalized Breit-Wheeler process, i.e. the emission of $e^+e^-$ pairs off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic (e.g.\ laser) wave field, is analyzed. We show that the production probability is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 A. I. Titov , B. Kampfer , H. Takabe , A. Hosaka

We discovered a simple regime where a near-critical plasma irradiated by a laser of experimentally available intensity can self-organize to produce positrons and accelerate them to ultra-relativistic energies. The laser pulse piles up…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 K. Sugimoto , Y. He , N. Iwata , I-L. Yeh , K. Tangtartharakul , A. Arefiev , Y. Sentoku

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