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The scattering of a positron by a muon in the presence of a linearly polarized laser field is investigated in the first Born approximation. The theoretical results reveals: 1) at large scattering angle, an amount of multiphoton processes…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Wen-Yuan Du , Bing-Hong Wang , Shu-Min Li

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…

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Production of electron-positron pairs from the quantum vacuum polarized by the superposition of a strong and a perturbative oscillating electric-field mode is studied. Our outcomes rely on a nonequilibrium quantum field theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-09 Ibrahim Akal , Selym Villalba-Chávez , Carsten Müller

For complete development of quantum electrodynamics in the presence of a strong external field, the proper understanding of resonant processes and all their peculiarities is essential. We present our attempt to analytically investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Sergei P. Roshchupkin , Nikita R. Larin , Victor V. Dubov

High-energy spin-polarized electron, positron, and $\gamma$-photon beams have many significant applications in the study of material properties, nuclear structure, particle physics, and high-energy astrophysics. Thus,efficient production of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Ting Sun , Qian Zhao , Kun Xue , Zhi-Wei Lu , Liang-Liang Ji , Feng Wan , Yu Wang , Yousef I. Salamin , Jian-Xing Li

Two-photon emission of an electron in an electromagnetic plane wave of vanishing frequency is calculated. The unpolarised probability is split into a two-step process, which is shown to be exactly equal to an integration over polarised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-15 B. King

Nonlinear electron emission processes induced by surface plasmon oscillations have been studied both experimentally and theoretically. The measured above-threshold electron spectra extend up to energies whose appearance cannot be explained…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-10 Sandor Varro , Norbert Kroo

Photonic platforms are an excellent setting for quantum technologies because weak photon-environment coupling ensures long coherence times. The second key ingredient for quantum photonics is interactions between photons, which can be…

Ultra strong electromagnetic fields can lead to spontaneous creation of single or multiple electron-positron pairs. A quantum field theoretical treatment of the pair creation process combined with numerical methods provides a description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

The polarization dynamics of electrons including multiple nonlinear Compton scattering during the interaction of a circularly-polarized ultraintense laser pulse with a counterpropagating ultrarelativistic electron beam is investigated.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Yan-Fei Li , Yue-Yue Chen , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , A. Di Piazza , M. Tamburini , C. H. Keitel

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 recoil associated with photon emission is key to the dynamics of ultrarelativistic electrons in strong electromagnetic fields, as are found in high-intensity laser-matter interactions and astrophysical environments such as neutron star…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 T. G. Blackburn , D. Seipt , S. S. Bulanov , M. Marklund

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

We investigated the effects of the momentum spread of photon around incoming electrons during nonlinear Compton scattering of an elliptically polarized laser off an ultrarelativistic electron beam. It has been assumed to be a good…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-13 Ya-Nan Dai , Jing-Jing Jiang , Yu-Hang Jiang , Rashid Shaisultanov , Yue-Yue Chen

Compton scattering is one of the cornerstones of quantum physics, describing the fundamental interaction of a charged particle with photons. The Compton effect and its inverse are utilized in experiments driving free electrons by high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Majed Khalaf , Ido Kaminer

Based on quantum theory, we investigate the distribution of the electrons scattered in nonlinear Compton effect by an electromagnetic plane wave. Deviations of the final electron momentum from its initial value are solely due to quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Madalina Boca , Victor Dinu , Viorica Florescu

Volkov states are exact solutions of the Dirac equation in the presence of an arbitrary plane wave. Volkov states, as well as free photon states, are not stable in the presence of the background plane-wave field but "decay" as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 T. Podszus , A. Di Piazza

Based on strong-field QED in the Furry picture we use the Dirac-Volkov propagator to derive a compact expression for the differential emission probability of the two-photon Compton process in a pulsed intense laser field. The relation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-31 D. Seipt , 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

The pair-production process in the presence of strong linearly polarized laser fields with a subcycle structure is considered. Laser pulses with different envelope shapes are examined by means of a nonperturbative numerical technique. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-21 I. A. Aleksandrov , G. Plunien , V. M. Shabaev