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The association of all three soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) with supernova remnants has made possible estimates of the distance to and luminosity of the sources of SGRs, which have provided a starting point for detailed modeling. One of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Coleman Miller , Tomasz Bulik

Non-thermal magnetospheric processes in the vicinity of supermassive black holes have attracted particular attention in recent times. Gap-type particle acceleration accompanied by curvature and Inverse Compton radiation could in principle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-18 Frank M. Rieger , Grigorios Katsoulakos

We demonstrate a new mechanism for coherent comb generation in both radiation and matter domains, which is by using strong-field quantum electrodynamics processes. Specifically, we demonstrate this for nonlinear Compton scattering which has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-23 Katarzyna Krajewska , Jerzy Z. Kaminski

A diamond-like carbon circular target is proposed to improve the $\gamma$-ray emission and pair production with lasers intensity of $8\times 10^{22} ~\mathrm{W/cm^2}$ by using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations with quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Ya-Juan Hou , Bai-Song Xie , Chong Lv , Feng Wan , Li Wang , Nureli Yasen , Hai-Bo Sang , Guo-Xing Xia

The canalization of terahertz surface plasmon polaritons using a modulated graphene monolayer is investigated for subwavelength imaging. An anisotropic surface conductivity formed by a set of parallel nanoribbons with alternating positive…

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

Proposals to reach the next generation of laser intensities through Raman or Brillouin backscattering have centered on optical frequencies. Higher frequencies are beyond the range of such methods mainly due to the wave damping that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Yuan Shi , Hong Qin , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Emission from X-ray binaries in the hard spectral state is dominated by high-energy radiation attributed to the Compton scattering of seed photons. The prevalent model of the Comptonization by hot electrons or pairs faces the problem of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 John Groger , Kun Hu , Henric Krawczynski

We study the broadband polarization of hydrogen lines produced by scattering of radiation, in the presence of isotropic electric fields. In this paper, we focus on two distinct problems: a) the possibility of detecting the presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 R. Casini , R. Manso Sainz

In this paper, we propose exploiting dispersion-engineered nanophotonic waveguides in generating unprecedented ultra-broadband spectral and polarisation entanglement using spontaneous four-wave mixing parametric processes. We developed a…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-10 Mahmoud Almassri , Mohammed F. Saleh

We investigate the charged scalar lepton production processes $\gamma\gamma\to{\widetilde{\ell}}^{+}{\widetilde{\ell}}^{-}$ at high energy $\gamma\gamma$ colliders in the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Here…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Tadashi Kon

We develop a numerical method to nonperturbatively study scattering and gluon emission of a quark from a colored target using a light-front Hamiltonian approach. The target is described as a classical color field, as in the Color Glass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-16 Meijian Li , Tuomas Lappi , Xingbo Zhao

The main goal of our present work is to provide, for the first time, a simple computational tool that can be used to compute the brightness, the spectral index, the polarization, the time variability and the spectrum of the non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-25 D. Volpi , L. Del Zanna , E. Amato , N. Bucciantini

Ultra-fast laser pulses have made possible the study of extreme nonlinear processes. Many of these experiments however require a full characterization of the electric field, which typically requires a separate parametric optical process. As…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-08 Brandin Davis , Tobias Saule , Carlos A. Trallero-Herrero

We investigated the effects of the momentum spread of photon around incoming electrons during nonlinear Compton scattering of an elliptically polarized laser off an ultrarelativistic electron beam. It has been assumed to be a good…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-13 Ya-Nan Dai , Jing-Jing Jiang , Yu-Hang Jiang , Rashid Shaisultanov , Yue-Yue Chen

The main idea and procedure are presented for a new synthetical method on constraining 3-D structure of emission regions of pulsars. With this method the emission regions can be synthetically constrained by fitting multi-wavelength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. G. Wang , H. Zhang , X. H. Cui , G. J. Qiao , K. J. Lee , Y. Liu , R. X. Xu

Pair creation by a $\gamma$ ray in a high-intensity electromagnetic field (the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process) is sensitive to the $\gamma$-ray polarisation. Here we study the stability required in order to measure this polarisation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Mathias Samuelsson , Thomas G. Blackburn

Optical waveguides made from periodically poled materials provide high confinement of light and enable the generation of new wavelengths via quasi-phase-matching, making them a key platform for nonlinear optics and photonics. However, such…

We describe progress applying the \textit{Worldline Formalism} of quantum field theory to the fermion propagator dressed by $N$-photons to study multi-linear Compton scattering processes, explaining how this approach -- whose calculational…

We demonstrate a High-Harmonic-Generation scheme which offers control over the bandwidth of the spectral peaks. The scheme uses a vectorial two-color driver with close central frequencies, generated by spectrally splitting a…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-26 Eldar Ragonis , Eran Ben Arosh , Lev Merensky , Avner Fleischer