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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

Up to date, quantum electrodynamics (QED) is the most precisely tested quantum field theory. Nevertheless, particularly in the high-intensity regime it predicts various phenomena that so far have not directly been accessible in all-optical…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-11 Leonhard Klar

The interaction between medium-weight nuclei and a strong zeptosecond laser pulse of MeV photons is investigated theoretically. Multiple absorption of photons competes with nuclear equilibration. We investigate the sudden regime. Here the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-11 Sergei Kobzak , Hans A. Weidenmüller , Adriana Pálffy

An all-optical scheme is proposed for studying a laser-plasma based incoherent photon emission from inverse Compton scattering in quantum electrodynamic (QED) regime. A theoretical model is presented to explain the coupling effect among…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Zheng Gong , Ronghao Hu , Haiyang Lu , Jinqing Yu , Chia-erh Chen , Xiantu He , Xueqing Yan

The colliding between an ultra-intense laser pulse with a high energy electron beam is not only an important source for high-brightness gamma-rays but also a powerful approach to exploit new physics in the exotic strong-field QED regime. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 X. S. Geng , L. L. Ji , B. F. Shen , B. Feng , Z. Guo , Q. Yu , L. G. Zhang , Z. Z. Xu

Approaching energy coupling in laser-irradiated metals, we point out the role of electron-electron collision as an efficient control factor for ultrafast optical absorption. The high degree of laser-induced electron-ion nonequilibrium…

Photoproduction of electron-positron pairs by the strong-field Breit-Wheeler process in an intense laser field is studied. The laser field is assumed to consist of two consecutive short pulses, with a variable time delay in between. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

The absorption of laser energy by plasma is of paramount importance for various applications. Collisional and resonant processes are often invoked for this purpose. However, in some contexts (e.g. in vacuum and the JxB heating), the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Rohit Juneja , Amita Das , Trishul Dhalia , Animesh Sharma

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

Ultra-strong laser pulses can be so intense that an electron in the focused beam loses significant energy due to gamma-photon emission while its motion deviates via the radiation back-reaction. Numerical methods and tools designed to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees

The well-known schemes (e.g. Brunel, resonance absorption, JxB heating etc.) couple laser energy to the lighter electron species of the plasma. In this work, a fundamentally new mechanism of laser energy absorption directly to the heavier…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Ayushi Vashistha , Devshree Mandal , Atul Kumar , Chandrasekhar Shukla , Amita Das

When a photon collides with a laser pulse, an electron-positron pair can be produced via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. A simulation framework has been developed to calculate this process, which is based on a ponderomotive approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 T. G. Blackburn , B. King

We suggest that electron-laser interactions can give rise to resonance phenomena as the intensity varies. A new QED perturbation theory is developed, in which the coupling between an electron and the second quantized laser mode is treated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gao , Dong-Sheng Guo , Yong-Shi Wu

The precision measurements of well-known light-by-light reactions lead to important insights of nonlinear quantum electrodynamics (QED) vacuum polarization. The laser of an intense electromagnetic field strength provides an essential tool…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Kai Ma , Tong Li

Photoproduction of electron-positron pairs by bremsstrahlung gamma-rays propagating through a high-intensity optical laser wave is studied. By calculating total pair production yields as well as energy and angular distributions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-03 A. Eckey , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller

The creation of an electron-positron pair in the collision of two real photons, namely the linear Breit-Wheeler process, has never been detected directly in the laboratory since its prediction in 1934 despite its fundamental importance in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 L Esnault , E d'Humières , A Arefiev , X Ribeyre

Strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SF-QED) plays a crucial role in ultraintense laser matter interactions, and demands sophisticated techniques to understand the related physics with new degrees of freedom, including spin angular…

The realization of high-$\beta$ lasers is one of the prime applications of cavity-QED promising ultra-low thresholds, integrability and reduced power consumption in the field of \textit{green photonics}. In such nanolasers spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-17 Frederik Lohof , Roy Barzel , Paul Gartner , Christopher Gies

The energy gain in laser wakefield accelerators is limited by dephasing between the driving laser pulse and the highly relativistic electrons in its wake. Since this phase depends on both the driver and the cavity length, the effects of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Döpp , E. Guillaume , C. Thaury , A. Lifschitz , K. Ta Phuoc , V. Malka

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