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The nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process of electron-positron pair production off a probe photon colliding with a low-frequency and a high-frequency electromagnetic wave that propagate in the same direction is analyzed. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-01 Yuan-Bin Wu , She-Sheng Xue

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

When a photon collides with a laser pulse, an electron-positron pair can be produced via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. A simulation framework has been developed to calculate this process, which is based on a ponderomotive approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 T. G. Blackburn , B. King

The assistance of an intense optical laser pulse on electron-positron pair production by the Breit-Wheeler and Schwinger processes in XFEL fields is analyzed. The impact of a laser beam on high-energy photon collisions with XFEL photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-04 T. Nousch , A. Otto , D. Seipt , B. Kämpfer , A. I. Titov , D. Blaschke , A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky

Relativistic spin-polarized positron beams are indispensable for future electron-positron colliders to test modern high-energy physics theory with high precision. However, present techniques require very large scale facilities for those…

To probe the nonlinear effects of photon-photon interaction in the quantum electrodynamics, we study the generation of circular polarized photons by the collision of two linearly polarized laser beams. In the framework of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-09 Rohoollah Mohammadi , Iman Motie , She-Sheng Xue

The advent of back-scattered laser beams for electron-positron colliders will allow detailed studies of a large array of high energy photon-photon and photon-electron collision processes with polarized beams. These include tests of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Stanley J. Brodsky

Photoproduction of electron-positron pairs by the strong-field Breit-Wheeler process in an intense laser field is studied. The laser field is assumed to consist of two consecutive short pulses, with a variable time delay in between. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

Electron-positron pairs are produced through the Breit-Wheeler process when energetic photons traverse electromagnetic fields of sufficient strength. Here we consider a possible experimental geometry for observation of pair creation in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 T. G. Blackburn , M. Marklund

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

Various methods of obtaining longitudinally polarized positrons for future linear colliders are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the schemes using circularly polarized high-energy photons for positron production. Most effectively such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Strakhovenko , X. Artru , R. Chehab , M. Chevallier

Non-linear Breit-Wheeler $e^+e^-$ pair production and its crossing channel - the non-linear Compton process - in the multi-photon regime are analyzed for linearly and circularly polarized short laser pulses. The contribution of multi-photon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 A. I. Titov , A. Otto , B. Kampfer

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

The production of a highly-polarized positron beam via nonlinear Breit-Wheeler processes during the interaction of an ultraintense circularly polarized laser pulse with a longitudinally spin-polarized ultrarelativistic electron beam is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yan-Fei Li , Yue-Yue Chen , Wei-Min Wang , Hua-Si Hu

The creation of electron-positron pairs by the strong-field Breit-Wheeler process in intense short laser pulses is investigated in the framework of laser-dressed quantum electrodynamics. Regarding laser field parameters in the multiphoton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-01 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

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

The forthcoming generation of multi-petawatt lasers opens the way to abundant pair production by the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, i.e., the decay of a photon into an electron-positron pair inside an intense laser field. In this paper we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 A. Mercuri-Baron , M. Grech , F. Niel , A. Grassi , M. Lobet , A. Di Piazza , C. Riconda

The pair beaming in the Breit-Wheeler (BW) process is investigated. We examine the effect of the BW differential cross section on pair angular and energy distributions. Although, this study is relevant for laser induced intense gamma-ray…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 X Ribeyre , E Dhumières , S. Jequier , V. Tikhonchuk

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

Energy-angular distributions of electron-positron pair creation in collisions of a laser beam and a nonlaser photon are calculated using the $S$-matrix formalism. The laser field is modeled as a finite pulse, similar to the formulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kaminski