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The non-perturbative electron-positron pair production in time-dependent electric fields is investigated. The quantum kinetic formalism is employed in order to calculate the electron density for various field configurations. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-06 Christian Kohlfürst

This paper continues the approach of Kostenko \& Thompson to calculating quantum electrodynamic processes in the ultrastrong magnetic field near some neutron stars, such as magnetars or merging binary neutron stars. Here we consider…

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

The polarized photon structure is described by two spin structure functions $g_1^\gamma$ and $g_2^\gamma$ which can be studied in the future polarized ep or e$^+$e$^-$ colliders. Here we investigate the QCD twist-3 effects in $g_2^\gamma$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Hideshi Baba , Ken Sasaki , Tsuneo Uematsu

Nonlinear QED interactions induce different polarization properties on a given probe beam. We consider the polarization effects caused by the photon-photon interaction in laser experiments, when a laser beam propagates through a constant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-03 Soroush Shakeri , Seyed Zafarollah Kalantari , She-Sheng Xue

It is conjectured that all perturbative approaches to quantum electrodynamics (QED) break down in the collision of a high-energy electron beam with an intense laser, when the laser fields are boosted to `supercritical' strengths far greater…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 T. G. Blackburn , A. Ilderton , M. Marklund , C. P. Ridgers

In this work, we systematically investigate the evolution of spin polarization and quantum entanglement in cascade decays of baryon-antibaryon pairs, which are produced in electron-positron annihilation. We derive a fully analytical spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 Cheng Chen , Ju-Jun Xie

A number of analytical and numerical studies has been performed to investigate the onset and the development of QED cascades in the collision of two counterpropagating laser pulses as a function of the laser intensity. However, it has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Archana Sampath , Matteo Tamburini

We propose a feasible scenario to directly polarize a relativistic electron beam and obtain overall polarization in various directions through a filter mechanism for single-shot collision between an ultrarelativistic unpolarized electron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Yuhui Tang , Qianyi Ma , Jinqing Yu , Yinren Shou , Xuezhi Wu , Xueqing Yan

The photon emission by an ultrarelativistic charged particle in extremely strong magnetic field is analyzed, with vacuum polarization and photon recoil taken into account. The vacuum polarization is treated phenomenologically via refractive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 I. I. Artemenko , E. N. Nerush , I. Yu. Kostyukov

A study of highly symmetric site-controlled Pyramidal In0.25Ga0.75As quantum dots (QDs) is presented. It is discussed that polarization-entangled photons can be also obtained from Pyramidal QDs of different designs from the one already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Juska , E. Murray , V. Dimastrodonato , T. H. Chung , S. Moroni , A. Gocalinska , E. Pelucchi

QCD motivated polarized parton distributions, evolved directly in x-space, are used to predict rates for prompt photon and Jet production at RHIC and HERA-N center of mass energies. Various scenarios for the polarized gluon distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 L. E. Gordon , G. P. Ramsey

The radiative quantum cascade, i.e. the consecutive emission of photons from a ladder of energy levels, is of fundamental importance in quantum optics. For example, the two-photon cascaded emission from calcium atoms was used in pioneering…

The dynamics of fast (e, 2e) collisions, induced by the impact of twisted electron beams, on atomic hydrogen, is analyzed in the presence of a laser field with circular and linear polarization. For the (e,2e) differential cross-section…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Neha , Rakesh Choubisa

Principal contributions to QED radiative effects for Moller scattering of polarized particles are investigated both on the Born level and taking into account radiative corrections (RC). Scattering on the case of longitudinal and transversal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Shumeiko , J. G. Suarez

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have potential applications in quantum information processing due to the fact that they are potential on-demand sources of single and entangled photons. Generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 E. R. Schmidgall , I. Schwartz , L. Gantz , D. Cogan , S. Raindel , D. Gershoni

Top quark pair production by (polarized) gamma gamma collisions offers an interesting testing ground of the Standard Model and its extensions. In this Letter we present results for differential cross sections of top quark pair production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Brandenburg , Z. G. Si

The electron structure function method is applied to calculate model-independent radiative corrections to an asymmetry of electron-proton scattering. The representations for both spin-independent and spin-dependent parts of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. V. Afanasev , I. Akushevich , N. P. Merenkov

We discuss in detail top quark polarization in above-threshold (t \bar t)-production at a polarized linear e^+ e^- collider. We pay particular attention to the minimization and maximization of the polarization of the top quark by tuning the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 S. Groote , J. G. Körner , B. Melić , S. Prelovsek

Radiation emitted by unpolarized high-energy electrons penetrating crystals may be linearly polarized. This occurs when the particle velocity makes an angle, with respect to some major crystal axis, being sufficiently larger than the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. M. Strakhovenko

I argue that the problem of electromagnetically driven electron-positron cascades in magnetospheres of neutron stars must be addressed starting from first principles. I describe a general numerical algorithm for doing self-consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-09 A. N. Timokhin