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Intense positron beams can be prepared via electro production with the reaction $e^{-} + e^{-} \rightarrow e^{-}+e^{+}+e^{-}+e^{-}$ due to the availability of high current electron beams. Head on collisions inside of a magnetic field of a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-07-14 Berthold Schoch

We present the results of the calculation of the electron-positron pair creation probability by the circularly polarized electromagnetic wave during its propagation in underdense collisionless plasmas. The dependence of the probability on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. S. Bulanov

The onset and development of electron-positron cascade in a standing wave formed by multiple colliding laser pulses requires tight focusing in order to achieve the maximum laser intensity. There, steep spatio-temporal gradients in the laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 M. Jirka , S. V. Bulanov

We present the results of kinetic modelling of quantum effects in laser-beam interaction. In the developed numerical model, electron-positron pair production by hard photons, hard photon emission and the electromagnetic fields generated by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Evgeny Nerush , Igor Kostyukov

The production of a highly-polarized positron beam via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler processes during the interaction of an ultraintense circularly polarized laser pulse with a longitudinally spin-polarized ultrarelativistic electron beam is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yan-Fei Li , Yue-Yue Chen , Wei-Min Wang , Hua-Si Hu

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

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

Recently much attention has being attracted to the problem of limitations on the attainable intensity of high power lasers [A.M. Fedotov {\it et al.} Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{105}, 080402 (2010)]. The laser energy can be absorbed by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov , A. M. Fedotov , N. B. Narozhny , N. V. Elkina , H. Ruhl

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

Strong-field quantum electrodynamics predicts electron-seeded electron-positron pair cascades when the electric field in the rest-frame of the seed electron approaches the Sauter-Schwinger field, i.e. $\eta = E_{RF}/E_S \sim 1$. Electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 C. Slade-Lowther , D. Del Sorbo , C. P. Ridgers

Polarization and radiation reaction (RR) effects in the interaction of a superintense laser pulse (I > 10^23 W/cm^2) with a thin plasma foil are investigated with three dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. For a linearly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-01 M. Tamburini , T. V. Liseykina , F. Pegoraro , A. Macchi

A relativistic electron-positron beam propagating through a magnetized electron-ion plasma is shown to generate both circularly and linearly polarized synchrotron radiation. The degrees of circular and linear polarizations depend both on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Ujjwal Sinha , Christoph H. Keitel , Naveen Kumar

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…

The laser interaction with an electron-positron-ion mixed plasma is studied, from the perspective of the associated high-order harmonic generation. For an idealized mixed plasma which is assumed with a sharp plasma-vacuum interface and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 W. L. Zhang , T. Grismayer , K. M. Schoeffler , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

A method for the generation of ultrarelativistic electron beams with high spin polarization is put forward, where a tightly-focused linearly-polarized ultraintense laser pulse interacts with a nonprepolarized transverse-size-tailored solid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Xiaofei Shen , Zheng Gong , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

We study the Schwinger electron-positron pair production by a strong electromagnetic field of two colliding e-polarized laser pulses with a relative phase shift $\Psi$. The spatio-temporal distribution of created pairs is very sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Chitradip Banerjee , Manoranjan P. Singh , Alexander M. Fedotov

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

Showers of $\gamma$-rays and positrons are produced when a high-energy electron beam collides with a super-intense laser pulse. We present scaling laws for the electron beam energy loss, the $\gamma$-ray spectrum, and the positron yield and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 T. G. Blackburn , A. Ilderton , C. D. Murphy , M. Marklund

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

The interaction of two laser pulses in an underdense plasma has proven to be able to inject electrons in plasma waves, thus providing a stable and tunable source of electrons. Whereas previous works focused on the "beatwave" injection…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-02-12 C. Rechatin , J. Faure , A. Lifschitz , X. Davoine , E. Lefebvre , V. Malka