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The photon-induced process of electron-positron pair creation in a strong homogeneous magnetic field, provided that the polarization of particles is arbitrary, has been considered. The polarization of a photon is described in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-08 O. P. Novak , R. I. Kholodov

We evaluate several basic electrodynamic processes as modified by the presence of a very strong magnetic field, exceeding $B_{\rm Q} \equiv m^2/e = 4.4\times 10^{13}$ G. These results are needed to build models of dissipative phenomena…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-31 Alexander Kostenko , Christopher Thompson

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

Pulsar magnetospheres are thought to be filled with electron-positron plasma generated in pair cascades. The driving mechanism of these cascades is the emission of gamma-ray photons and their conversion into pairs via Quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-30 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Alexander Y. Chen , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Luis O. Silva

A formula for the ionization rate in extremely intense electromagnetic field is proposed and used for numerical study of QED (quantum-electrodynamical) cascades in noble gases in the field of two counter-propagating laser pulses. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 I. I. Artemenko , I. Yu. Kostyukov

The present work theoretically investigates the probability of generation of entangled electron-photon pair in high-energy Compton scattering of unpolarized electrons and photons due to scattering-channel-exchange mechanism. The study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Basudev Nag Chowdhury , Sanatan Chattopadhyay

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

Cascaded Compton scattering and Breit-Wheeler (BW) processes play fundamental roles in high-energy astrophysical sources and laser-driven quantum electrodynamics (QED) plasmas. A thorough comprehension of the polarization transfer in these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-07 Qian Zhao , Ting Sun , Kun Xue , Feng Wan , Jian-Xing Li

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

Dense positrons are shown to be effectively generated from laser-solid interactions in the strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) regime. Whether these positrons are polarized has not yet been reported, limiting their potential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Yu-Tong Li

We study nonperturbative multiphoton electron-positron pair creation in ultrastrong electromagnetic fields formed by two counterpropagating pulses with elliptic polarization. Our numerical approach allows us to take into account the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 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

Electromagnetic cascades attract a lot of attention as an important QED effect that will reveal itself in various electromagnetic field configurations at ultrahigh intensities. We study cascade dynamics in rotating electric field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 E. N. Nerush , V. F. Bashmakov , I. Yu. Kostyukov

Modern ultra-intense laser facilities can generate electromagnetic fields strong enough to accelerate particles to near-light speeds over micron-scale distances and also approach the QED critical field, resulting in highly nonlinear and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Q. Qian , D. Seipt , M. Vranic , T. Grismayer , C. P. Ridgers , A. G. R. Thomas

We present an analytical and numerical study of multiple-laser QED cascades induced with linearly polarised laser pulses. We analyse different polarisation orientations and propose a configuration that maximises the cascade multiplicity and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Marija Vranic , Thomas Grismayer , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

In the framework of QED, scalar pair production by a single linearly polarized high-energy photon in the presence of an external Aharonov-Bohm potential is investigated. The exact scattering solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Y. Shahin , M. S. Shikakhwa

Spin correlations are carefully investigated in elastic $e^{+}e^{-}$ scattering in QED, for initially \textit{polarized} as well as \textit{unpolarized} particles, with emphasis placed on energy or speed of the underlying particles involved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-14 Nattapong Yongram

The compact expressions for cross sections of photoproduction of a pair of charged particles $\mathrm{e}^+,\mathrm{e}^-$; $\mu^+,\mu^-$; $\pi^+,\pi^-$ as well as the double Compton scattering process are given. The explicit analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 E. Bartos , M. V. Galynskii , S. R. Gevorkyan , E. A. Kuraev

It is known that the linearly polarized photons can partly transform to circularly polarized ones via forward Compton scattering in a background such as the external magnetic field or noncommutative space time. Based on this fact we explore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 S. Tizchang , S. Batebi , M. Haghighat , R. Mohammadi

We investigate the spin correlations between electron-positron pairs created from a photon when it scatters in a high-intensity laser pulse via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. We find that the spin states of the generated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-10 S. Tang , B. M. Dillon , B. King