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Electron-positron pairs can be produced via the Schwinger mechanism in the presence of strong electric fields. In particular, the fields involved in $\alpha$ decay and nuclear fission are strong enough to produce them. The energy of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Thomas Settlemyre , Hua Zheng , Aldo Bonasera

We study electron-positron pair creation by a strong and constant electric field superimposed with a weaker transversal plane wave which is incident perpendicularly (or under some angle). Comparing the fully non-perturbative approach based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Greger Torgrimsson , Christian Schneider , Ralf Schützhold

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

The process of bound-free pair production of electrons and positrons in combined laser and Coulomb fields is investigated. It is assumed that an ion collides at relativistic speed with an intense x-ray laser beam of linear polarization. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Deneke , C. Müller

Circularly polarized colliding laser pulses can create abundant electron-positron pair plasma [A. R. Bell and J. G. Kirk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200403 (2008)], which scattering the incoming electromagnetic waves can prevent them from…

As a fundamental QED process, linear Breit-Wheeler (LBW) pair production predicted 90 years ago has not yet been demonstrated in experiments with real photons. Here, we propose an experimentally advantageous scheme to detect the LBW signal…

We report here experimental results of perturbative nonlinear optical wave-mixing processes in the extreme ultraviolet region by using two-color and three-color laser fields. Besides the usual odd-harmonic spectrum of high harmonic…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-02 Khoa Anh Tran , Khuong Ba Dinh , Peter Hannaford , Lap Van Dao

Although several laser-plasma-based methods have been proposed for generating energetic electrons, positrons and {\gamma}-photons, manipulation of their microstructures is still challenging, and their angular momentum control has not yet…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Xing-Long Zhu , Tong-Pu Yu , Min Chen , Su-Ming Weng , Zheng-Ming Sheng

The process of electron-positron pair production is investigated within the phase-space Wigner formalism. The similarities between atomic ionization and pair production for homogeneous, but time-dependent linearly polarized electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Christian Kohlfürst

Deep understanding of photon polarization impact on pair production is essential for the efficient creation of laser driven polarized positron beams, and demands a complete description of polarization effects in strong-field QED processes.…

We investigate the creation of electron-positron pairs (EPPs) in a sequence of alternating-sign, time-dependent electric field pulse trains by solving the quantum Vlasov equations. Specifically, we focus on Sauter-like pulse trains with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Deepak Sah , Manoranjan P. Singh

We consider the details of the QED processes that create electron-positron pairs in magnetic fields approaching and exceeding 10^{14} G. The formation of free and bound pairs is addressed, and the importance of positronium dissociation by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Thompson

We study the creation of electron-positron pairs in the superposition of a nuclear Coulomb field and a two-color laser field of high intensity. Our focus lies on quantum interference effects, which may arise if the two laser frequencies are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 Sven Augustin , Carsten Müller

In this paper we examine the pair production through the Breit-Wheeler process $\gamma~\gamma \to e^+ e^-$ in a thermal background. We compute the thermal contribution to the Breit-Wheeler differential cross section within the thermofield…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-23 D. S. Cabral , A. F. Santos , R. Bufalo

The ultrafast formation of strongly bound excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide a rich platform for studying fundamental physics as well as developing novel optoelectronic technologies. While extensive research has explored the…

The dynamics of an electron bunch irradiated by two focused colliding super-intense laser pulses and the resulting gamma and electron-positron production are studied. Due to attractors of electron dynamics in a standing wave created by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Jirka , O. Klimo , S. V. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , E. Gelfer , S. S. Bulanov , S. Weber , G. Korn

Generation of ultrarelativistic polarized leptons during interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating ultraintense laser pulse is investigated in the quantum radiation-dominated domain. While the symmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Kai-Hong Zhuang , Yue-Yue Chen , Yan-Fei Li , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

The coupling of laser light to matter can exert sub-cycle coherent control over material properties, with optically induced currents and magnetism shown to be controllable on ultrafast femtosecond time scales. Here, by employing laser light…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-19 Q. Z. Li , S. Shallcross , J. K. Dewhurst , S. Sharma , P. Elliott

Electron-positron pair production from vacuum in a strong electric field oscillating in time is studied. The field is assumed to consist of two consecutive pulses, with variable time delay in between. Pair production probabilities are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 L. F. Granz , O. Mathiak , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

Electron-positron pair production by the superposition of two laser pulses with different frequencies and amplitudes is analyzed as a particular realization of the assisted dynamic Schwinger effect. It is demonstrated that, within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky , A. Otto , B. Kaempfer , D. Blaschke , L. Juchnowski