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High laser intensities enable the production of electron-positron pairs from bright gamma rays passing through strong fields. Potentially the most promising approach for all-optical experiments in the near term uses dense but higher…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Christopher Arran , Stuart Morris , Christopher P. Ridgers

During the ultraintense laser interaction with solids (overdense plasmas), the competition between two possible quantum electrodynamics (QED) mechanisms responsible for $e^\pm$ pair production, i.e., linear and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler (BW)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Min Chen , Zheng-Ming Sheng

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 linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) process, mediated by photon-photon collisions, can emerge as the dominant pair production mechanism in the ultraintense laser-plasma interaction for laser intensities below $10^{23}~\rm W/cm^2$. Here, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Huai-Hang Song , Zheng-Ming Sheng

When modeling laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) using the particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm in a Lorentz boosted frame, the plasma is drifting relativistically at $\beta_b c$ towards the laser, which can lead to a computational speedup of…

Experimental efforts toward the detection of the nonperturbative strong-field regime of the Breit-Wheeler pair creation process plan to combine incoherent sources of GeV $\gamma$ quanta and the coherent fields of tightly focussed optical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Alina Golub , Selym Villalba-Chávez , Carsten Müller

We consider coherent electromagnetic processes for colliders with short bunches, in particular the coherent bremsstrahlung (CBS). CBS is the radiation of one bunch particles in the collective field of the oncoming bunch. It can be a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Engel , A. Schiller , V. G. Serbo

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…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Jing-Jing Jiang , Ya-Nan Dai , Kai-Hong Zhuang , Yunquan Gao , Suo Tang , Yue-Yue Chen

MeV ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) is a widely used technology for ultrafast structural dynamic studies of matters in numerous areas. The development of laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) envisions great potential of advanced…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Yu Fang , Fei Li , Jianfei Hua , Bo Guo , Linyi Zhou , Bing Zhou , Zhihao Chen , Jianyi Liu , Zheng Zhou , Yipeng Wu , Yingchao Du , Renkai Li , Wei Lu

Frequency up-shifting of laser light in a beam-driven plasma wakefield has the potential to provide high-intensity sources of short wavelength radiation. Simulations have demonstrated that a laser pulse can undergo large frequency shifts,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Neil Beri , John Palastro , Qian Qian , Kyle Miller , Brandon Russell , Alexander Thomas

Structural and thermodynamic properties of ionic fluids are related to those of a simpler ``mimic'' system with short ranged intermolecular interactions in a spatially varying effective field by use of Local Molecular Field (LMF) theory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yng-gwei Chen , Charanbir Kaur , John D. Weeks

Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) in a gas cell target separating injection and acceleration section has been investigated to produce high-quality electron beams. A detailed study has been performed on controlling the quality of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Srimanta Maity , Alamgir Mondal , Eugene Vishnyakov , Alexander Molodozhentsev

The AWAKE experiment aims to demonstrate preservation of injected electron beam quality during acceleration in proton-driven plasma waves. The short bunch duration required to correctly load the wakefield is challenging to meet with the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Barney Williamson , Guoxing Xia , Steffen Doebert , Stefan Karsch , Patric Muggli

The combination of energetic electron beams, delivered from conventional accelerators at a high repetition rate, and ultraintense lasers, makes it possible to perform precision measurements of strong-field QED. The LUXE collaboration aims…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexander J. Macleod

Using lattice approximations of Euclidean space, we develop a way to approximate stable processes that are represented by stochastic integrals over Euclidean space. Via a stable version of the Lindeberg-Feller Theorem we show that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Clément Dombry , Paul Jung

The $e^+e^-$ pair production by a probe photon traversing a linearly polarized laser pulse is treated as generalized nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. For short laser pulses with very few oscillations of the electromagnetic field we find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-04 T. Nousch , D. Seipt , B. Kampfer , A. I. Titov

Laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) can produce relativistic electron beams and various secondary particles in centimeter-long plasmas, making it a valuable particle source with important applications in many disciplines. In this work, we…

With the rapid development of high-power petawatt class lasers worldwide, exploring physics in the strong field QED regime will become one of the frontiers for laser-plasma interactions research. Particle-in-cell codes, including quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Qian Qian , Daniel Seipt , Marija Vranic , Thomas E. Grismayer , Tom G. Blackburn , Christopher P. Ridgers , Alexander G. R. Thomas

In the present paper, we consider processes involving the emission of soft photons in the presence of a strong laser field. We demonstrate that the matrix element $S$ for a process $\text{i} \rightarrow \text{f} + \gamma$, with a soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-04 P. A. Krachkov

Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) is a promising approach for producing high-brightness electron beams in the GeV energy range, offering significant potential for compact next-generation accelerator facilities. In this work, we present a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Srimanta Maity , Francesco Massimo , Alex Whitehead , Pavel Sasorov , Alexander Molodozhentsev