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We study in detail the strong-field QED process of non-linear Compton scattering in short intense plane wave laser pulses of circular polarization. Our main focus is placed on how the spectrum of the back-scattered laser light depends on…

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Inverse Compton scattering (ICS) is a unique mechanism for producing fast pulses - picosecond and below - of bright X- to gamma-rays. These nominally narrow spectral bandwidth electromagnetic radiation pulses are efficiently produced in the…

The laser of an intense electromagnetic field provides an important tool to study the strong-field particle physics. The nonlinear Compton scattering was observed in the collision of an ultra-relativistic electron beam with a laser pulse in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-07 Kai Ma , Tong Li

We give exact results for the emission spectra of both nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production and nonlinear Compton scattering in ultra-intense, ultra-short duration plane wave backgrounds, modelled as delta-function pulses. This includes…

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When an electron is accelerated, it emits radiation. In the relativistic quantum realm the elementary radiation process is the emission of a single photon, a process known as nonlinear Compton scattering in the case of an electron moving in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Antonino Di Piazza , Kenan Qu

We demonstrate that the nontrivial dispersion of a plasma driven by a high-intensity laser pulse qualitatively affects fundamental nonperturbative QED processes triggered by the laser pulse even in the case that no electrons remain in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 F. Mackenroth

The non-linear (strong-field) Breit-Wheeler $e^+e^-$ pair production by a probe photon traversing two consecutive short and ultra short (sub-cycle) laser pulses is considered within a QED framework. The temporal shape of the pulses and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 A. I. Titov , B. Kampfer , H. Takabe

Emission of high energy gamma rays via the non-linear inverse Compton scattering process (ICS) in interactions of ultra-intense laser pulses with thin solid foils is studied using particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that the angular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Jiří Vyskočil , Evgeny Gelfer , Ondřej Klimo

The specific features of nonlinear pair production and radiation processes in an ultratsrong rotating electric field are investigated, taking into account that this field models the antinodes of counterpropagating laser beams. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Erez Raicher , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

Near-future high-intensity lasers offer prospects for the observation of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in an overcritical field regime, where the quantum nonlinearity parameter substantially exceeds unity. This experimentally yet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 I. Elsner , A. Golub , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

The creation of electron-positron pairs by the strong-field Breit-Wheeler process in intense short laser pulses is investigated in the framework of laser-dressed quantum electrodynamics. Regarding laser field parameters in the multiphoton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-01 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

Stimulated photon-photon scattering is a predicted consequence of quantum electrodynamics that has yet to be measured directly. Measuring the cross-section for stimulated photon-photon scattering is the aim of a flagship experiment for NSF…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-19 Hans G. Rinderknecht , E. Dill , A. J. MacLeod , B. King , K. Sow , S. -W. Bahk , I. A. Begishev , F. Karbstein , J. Schreiber , M. Zepf , A. Di Piazza

Non-linear Compton scattering in ultra-short intense laser pulses is discussed with the focus on angular distributions of the emitted photon energy. This is an observable which is accessible easily experimentally. Asymmetries of the…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-30 D. Seipt , B. Kampfer

Narrowband x- and gamma-ray sources based on the inverse Compton scattering of laser pulses suffer from a limitation of the allowed laser intensity due to the onset of nonlinear effects that increase their bandwidth. It has been suggested…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Seipt , S. G. Rykovanov , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche

Nonlinear Compton scattering driven by ultraintense lasers presents a promising avenue for enhancing the photon energy, brilliance, and setup compactness of $\gamma$-ray sources. However, a significant challenge lies in achieving a high…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Xian-Zhang Wu , Yan-Fei Li , Yu-Tong Li

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

We investigate the phase interference effects in the nonlinear Compton scattering via the collision between an high-energy electron and the laser in the intermediate intensity region, and reveal that the importance of interference effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-15 Zu-dong Zhao , Suo Tang

We report a proposal to observe the two-photon Breit-Wheeler process in plasma driven by compact lasers. A high charge electron bunch can be generated from laser plasma wakefield acceleration when a tightly focused laser pulse transports in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 L. Q. Han , J. Cai , Y. R. Shou , X. D. Liu , J. Q. Yu , X. Q. Yan

Nonlinear Thomson and Compton processes, in which energetic electrons collide with an intense optical pulse, are investigated in the framework of classical and quantum electrodynamics. Spectral modulations of the emitted radiation,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Krajewska , M. Twardy , J. Z. Kamiński

The photon spectrum from electrons scattering on multiple laser pulses exhibits interference effects not present for scattering on a single pulse. We investigate the conditions required for the experimental observation of these interference…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Anton Ilderton , Ben King , Suo Tang