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In the presence of an external Aharonov-Bohm potential, we investigate the two QED processes of the emission of a bremsstrahlung photon by an electron, and the production of an electron-positron pair by a single photon. Calculations are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 U. A. al-Binni , M. S. Shikakhwa

We report the observation of longitudinal filamentation of an electron-positron pair plasma in a beam-driven QED cascade. The filaments are created in the "pair-reflection" regime, where the generated pairs are partially stopped and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kenan Qu , Alec Griffith , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. Polarization effects in this process are important for a number of physical problems. We discuss a probability of this process for circularly polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Yu. Ivanov , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

Many studies have shown that high-energy $\gamma$-photon beams can be efficiently generated via nonlinear Compton scattering driven by laser pulses with intensities $> 10^{22}\rm{W/cm^2}$ recently available in laboratories. Here, we propose…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Zhe Gao , Wei-Min Wang

Electron-positron pair production in an arbitrary polarized ultrastrong laser field is investigated in the first order perturbation approximation in which the Volkov states are used for convenient calculation of scattering amplitude and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Liang-Yong He , Bai-Song Xie , Xin-Heng Guo , Hong-Yu Wang

Converting light into matter has been a longstanding goal in physics, particularly the creation of electron-positron pairs through quantum electrodynamic (QED) processes. While current approaches using multiple colliding laser pulses can…

Future laser-electron colliders will reach quantum parameters $\chi$ well in excess of unity, enabling studies of strong-field QED in extreme regimes. However, statistical inference in such experiments requires mitigating premature…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-11 C. Olofsson , A. Gonoskov

This paper provides explicit and detailed quantum field theory (QFT) computations of polarizations correlations of emerging particles in several processes in QED, Electroweak Theory, and even in particle productions from strings, and hence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-10 N. Yongram , E. B. Manoukian

There has been much recent research into possible methods of polarizing an antiproton beam, the most promising being spin filtering, the theoretical understanding of which is currently incomplete. The method of polarization buildup by spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-09 D. S. O'Brien

We consider production of a e^+e^- pair by a high-energy photon in the field of a strong laser wave. A probability of this process for circularly or linearly polarized laser photons and for arbitrary polarization of all other particles is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Yu. Ivanov , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

The magnetospheres of neutron stars provide a valuable testing ground for as-yet unverified theoretical predictions of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in strong electromagnetic fields. Exhibiting magnetic field strengths well in excess of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Matthew G. Baring

We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. A probability of this process for circularly or linearly polarized laser photons and for arbitrary polarization of all other particles is calculated. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Yu. Ivanov , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

Understanding the interplay of strong-field QED and collective plasma effects is important for explaining extreme astrophysical environments like magnetars. It has been shown that QED pair plasmas is possible to be produced and observed by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Kenan Qu , Sebastian Meuren , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We discuss electron-positron pair-production by super-intense, short laser pulses off the physical vacuum state locally deformed by (stripped) nuclei with large nuclear charges. Consequences of non-perturbative vacuum polarisation resulting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Klaus Dietz , Michael Proebsting

We systematically study the spin correlations and quantum entanglement in transversely polarized electron-positron collisions. We find that the $s$-channel QED process $e^-e^+\to f\bar f$ produces a maximally entangled state in the entire…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Yi-Jing Fang , Amit Bhoonah , Kun Cheng , Tao Han , Yandong Liu , Hao Zhang

The interaction of an unpolarized electron beam with a counterpropagating ultraintense linearly polarized laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. We employ a semiclassical Monte Carlo method to describe…

In the previous work, "Spin correlations in elastic $e^+ e^-$ scattering in QED" (Yongram, 2018), spin correlations for entangled electrons and positrons as emergent particles of electron-positron scattering (also known as Bhabha…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Kort Beck , Gabriel Jacobo

Owing to recent advances in laser technology, it has become important to investigate fundamental laser-assisted processes in very powerful laser fields. In the present work and within the framework of laser-assisted quantum electrodynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 I Dahiri , M Jakha , S Mouslih , B Manaut , S Taj

In a previous paper we showed how higher-order strong-field-QED processes in long laser pulses can be approximated by multiplying sequences of "strong-field Mueller matrices". We obtained expressions that are valid for arbitrary field shape…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Greger Torgrimsson

The possibility in principle of the determining high energy photon circular polarization by the measurement of the created electron polarization in the process of triplet photoproduction $\gamma +e^-\rightarrow e^+e^- +e^-$ is investigated.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 G. I. Gakh , M. I. Konchatnij , I. S. Levandovsky , N. P. Merenkov