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We present a theoretical study of bound-free electron-positron pair production in the interaction of $\gamma$-rays with bare ions. Special attention is paid to the longitudinal polarization of both the emitted positrons and the produced…

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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

Direct production of electron--positron pairs in two photon collisions, the Breit--Wheeler process, is one of the basic processes in the Universe. However, it has never been observed in laboratory because of absence of the intense gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-13 X. Ribeyre , M. Lobet , E. D'Humières , O. Jansen , S. Jequier , V. T. Tikhonchuk

The effect of the pulse envelope on electron-positron pair creation in a circularly-polarised laser pulse is investigated. Interference on the length scale of the pulse envelope, and smoothness of the pulse edges are found to influence the…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-08 S. Tang , B. King

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

The photon-induced process of electron-positron pair creation in a strong homogeneous magnetic field, provided that the polarization of particles is arbitrary, has been considered. The polarization of a photon is described in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-08 O. P. Novak , R. I. Kholodov

In many-cycle plane waves at intermediate intensities, the nonlinear trident process can be well-approximated by the two sequential steps of nonlinear Compton scattering of a polarised real photon followed by its transformation into an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-11 S. Tang , B. King

The resonant external field-assisted Breit-Wheeler process (Oleinik resonances) for strong electromagnetic fields with intensities less than the critical Schwinger field has been theoretically studied. The resonant kinematics has been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 S. P. Roshchupkin , V. D. Serov , V. V. Dubov

In this paper we derive and discuss the completely spin- and photon-polarisation dependent probability rates for nonlinear Compton scattering and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production. The locally constant field approximation, which is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 D. Seipt , B. King

The ability of an intense laser pulse to propagate in a classically over-critical plasma through the phenomenon of relativistic transparency is shown to facilitate the generation of strong plasma magnetic fields. Particle-in-cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Oliver Jansen , Tao Wang , David Stark , Toma Toncian , Alexey Arefiev

High-power laser facilities give experimental access to fundamental strong-field quantum electrodynamics processes. A key effect to be explored is the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process: the conversion of high-energy photons into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-03 Alexander J. MacLeod , Prokopis Hadjisolomou , Tae Moon Jeong , Sergei V. Bulanov

The non-linear (strong-field) Breit-Wheeler $e^+e^-$ pair production by a probe photon traversing two consecutive short and ultra short (sub-cycle) laser pulses is considered within a QED framework. The temporal shape of the pulses and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 A. I. Titov , B. Kampfer , H. Takabe

Semiconductor spin lasers are distinguished from their conventional counterparts by the presence of spin-polarized carriers. The transfer of angular momentum of the spin-polarized carriers to photons provides important opportunities for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Gaofeng Xu , David Cao , Velimir Labinac , Igor Žutić

We analyze interference processes in atomic ionization induced by a two-color laser with fundamental frequency $\omega $ and its second harmonic $2\omega $. The interplay between inter- and intracycle interference processes give rise to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-09-13 Diego G. Arbó , Sebastián D. López

Full one-loop electroweak-corrections for an $e^-e^+\rightarrow t \bar{t}$ process associated with sequential $t\rightarrow b \mu\nu_\mu$ decay are discussed. At the one-loop level, the spin-polarization effects of the initial electron and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-25 Nhi M. U. Quach , Yoshimasa Kurihara , Khiem H. Phan , Takahiro Ueda

Using different laser irradiation patterns to modify of silicon surface, it has been demonstrated that, at rather small overlapping between irradiation spots, highly regular laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) can be produced…

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

High laser intensities enable the production of electron-positron pairs from bright gamma rays passing through strong fields. Potentially the most promising approach for all-optical experiments in the near term uses dense but higher…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Christopher Arran , Stuart Morris , Christopher P. Ridgers

We investigate the process of creating electron-positron pairs from laser-matter interaction in pre-ionised foam targets using particle-in-cell simulations. A high-intensity laser pulse drives electrons via direct laser acceleration up to a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Oliver Mathiak , Lars Reichwein , Alexander Pukhov

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