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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

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

In this study we explore the possibility of using the process of electron-positron pair creation in strong laser fields as a tool for measuring the intensity of the corresponding laser radiation. In the initial state we consider either free…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 I. A. Aleksandrov , A. A. Andreev

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

Vacuum polarization is numerically investigated for the interaction between a GeV electron beam and a counterpropagating ultraintense laser pulse in the quantum radiation dominated-regime (QRDR). We identify a signal of vacuum polarization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Jia-Ding Chen , Ya-Nan Dai , Kai-Hong Zhuang , Jing-Jing Jiang , Baifei Shen , Yue-Yue Chen

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…

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

We put forward a novel method for producing ultrarelativistic high-density high-polarization positrons through a single-shot interaction of a strong laser with a tilted solid foil. In our method, the driving laser ionizes the target, and…

The mechanism of laser-driven relativistic pair-jet production qualitatively changes as laser intensity exceeds $I\gtrsim5\times10^{22}$ W/cm$^{2}$ because of the appearance of laser-induced strong-field QED processes. Here, we show that by…

Near-future high-intensity lasers offer prospects for the observation of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in an overcritical field regime, where the quantum nonlinearity parameter substantially exceeds unity. This experimentally yet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-12 I. Elsner , A. Golub , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

Electron-positron pair creation occurs throughout the universe in the environments of extreme astrophysical objects, such as pulsar magnetospheres and black hole accretion disks. The difficulty of emulating these environments in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 B. Barbosa , J. P. Palastro , D. Ramsey , K. Weichman , M. Vranic

The generalized Breit-Wheeler process, i.e. the emission of $e^+e^-$ pairs off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic (e.g.\ laser) wave field, is analyzed. We show that the production probability is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 A. I. Titov , B. Kampfer , H. Takabe , A. Hosaka

Generation of ultrarelativistic polarized positrons during interaction of an ultrarelativistic electron beam with a counterpropagating two-color petawatt laser pulse is investigated theoretically. Our Monte Carlo simulation based on a…

High-energy spin-polarized electron, positron, and $\gamma$-photon beams have many significant applications in the study of material properties, nuclear structure, particle physics, and high-energy astrophysics. Thus,efficient production of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Ting Sun , Qian Zhao , Kun Xue , Zhi-Wei Lu , Liang-Liang Ji , Feng Wan , Yu Wang , Yousef I. Salamin , Jian-Xing Li

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

We extend our holographic analysis of the emission of photons by a strongly coupled plasma subject to a very intense external magnetic field. We previously showed that in a particular model, any photon produced by the plasma had to be in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Daniel Ávila , Francisco Nettel , Leonardo Patiño

A novel scheme is proposed for generating a polarized positron beam via multiphoton Breit-Wheeler process during the collision of a 10 GeV, pC seeding electron beam with the other 1 GeV, nC driving electron beam. The driving beam provides…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-20 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Yu-Tong Li

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

We estimate the energy distribution of positrons produced in the interaction of ultra-relativistic electrons with a high-intensity laser beam. The underlying trident process is factorized on the probabilistic level. That is, we deploy a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 A. I. Titov , U. Hernandez Acosta , 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