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At laser intensities above 1023W/cm2 the interaction of a laser with a plasma is qualitatively different to the interactions at lower intensities. In this intensity regime solid targets start to become relativistically underdense, gamma-ray…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. S. Brady , C. P. Ridgers , T. D. Arber , A. R. Bell

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

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

Production of electron-positron pairs in the collision of a high-energy photon with a high-intensity few-cycle laser pulse is studied. By utilizing the frameworks of laser-dressed spinor and scalar quantum electrodynamics, a comparison…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 M. J. A. Jansen , J. Z. Kamiński , K. Krajewska , C. Müller

In this paper we have studied the influence of the laser polarization on the dynamics of the ionization-injected electron beams and subsequently the properties of the emitted betatron radiation in laser wakefield accelerators (LWFAs). While…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Arghya Mukherjee , Daniel Seipt

In our contribution we give a brief overview of two widely discussed quantum processes: electron-positron pairs production off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic (e.m.) (e.g.\ laser) wave field or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-02 Alexander I. Titov , Burkhard Kampfer , Atsushi Hosaka , Hideaki Takabe

Radiative polarization of electrons and positrons through the Sokolov-Ternov effect is important for applications in high-energy physics. Radiative spin-polarization is a manifestation of quantum radiation reaction affecting the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 D. Seipt , D. Del Sorbo , C. P. Ridgers , A. G. R. Thomas

With the rapid development of high-power petawatt class lasers worldwide, exploring physics in the strong field QED regime will become one of the frontiers for laser-plasma interactions research. Particle-in-cell codes, including quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Qian Qian , Daniel Seipt , Marija Vranic , Thomas E. Grismayer , Tom G. Blackburn , Christopher P. Ridgers , Alexander G. R. Thomas

The electron-positron pair production accompanying interaction of a circularly polarized laser pulse with a foil is studied for laser intensities higher than $10^{24}$W cm$^{-2}$. The laser energy penetrates into the foil due to the effect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 I. Yu. Kostyukov , E. N. Nerush

We study the non-linear Breit-Wheeler process $\vec \gamma' + \vec L \to e^+ + e^-$ in the interaction of linearly polarized probe photons ($\vec \gamma'$) with a linearly polarized laser beam ($\vec L$). In particular, we consider the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Alexander I. Titov , Burkhard Kampfer

The $e^+e^-$ pair production by a probe photon traversing a linearly polarized laser pulse is treated as generalized nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. For short laser pulses with very few oscillations of the electromagnetic field we find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-04 T. Nousch , D. Seipt , B. Kampfer , A. I. Titov

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

The use of an intense ultrashort laser pulse to induce electron polarization has been proposed in existing literature. The Python programming language is used to recreate the local constant crossed-field approximation (LCFA) with the aim of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Katherine D. Ranjbar , Emily Snyder , Alice Snyder , Vahid H. Ranjbar

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

This work provides an overview of our recent results in studying two most important and widely discussed quantum processes: electron-positron pairs production off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Alexander I. Titov , Burkhard Kampfer , Atsushi Hosaka , Hideaki Takabe

The nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process is studied in the presence of strong and short laser pulses. We show that for a relativistically intense plane-wave laser field many features of the momentum distribution of the produced electron-positron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-25 Sebastian Meuren , Christoph H. Keitel , Antonino Di Piazza

We study polarization effects in the nonlinear interference of photons generated via frequency non-degenerate spontaneous parametric down conversion. Signal and idler photons generated in the visible and infrared (IR) range, are split in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Anna Paterova , Hongzhi Yang , Chengwu An , Dmitry Kalashnikov , Leonid Krivitsky

We investigate electron-positron pair creation in the interaction of a nuclear Coulomb field and a highly intense two-mode laser field. For bichromatic laser fields, we examine the differences arising for commensurable and incommensurable…

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

The creation of an electron-positron pair in the collision of two real photons, namely the linear Breit-Wheeler process, has never been detected directly in the laboratory since its prediction in 1934 despite its fundamental importance in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 L Esnault , E d'Humières , A Arefiev , X Ribeyre

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…