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Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are expected to produce the strongest electromagnetic fields in the known Universe. These highly-Lorentz contracted fields can manifest themselves as linearly polarized quasi-real photons that can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 James Daniel Brandenburg , Wangmei Zha , Zhangbu Xu

We investigate the phase interference effects in the nonlinear Compton scattering via the collision between an high-energy electron and the laser in the intermediate intensity region, and reveal that the importance of interference effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-15 Zu-dong Zhao , Suo Tang

The polariton-polariton interaction strength is an important parameter for all kinds of applications using the nonlinear properties of polaritons, such as optical switching and single-photon blockade devices. In this paper, we review and…

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

Electron-positron pair production in combined laser and Coulomb fields is studied. To this end, the Feynman diagram for multiphoton pair creation by muon impact on a circularly polarized high-frequency laser beam is evaluated within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-06 Sarah J. Müller , Carsten Müller

We investigate the nonlinear interaction between a relativistically strong laser beam and a plasma in the quantum regime. The collective behavior of the electrons is modeled by a Klein-Gordon equation, which is nonlinearly coupled with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

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

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.…

Relativistic electrons generated by the interaction of petawatt-class short laser pulses with solid targets can be used to generate bright X-rays via bremsstrahlung. The efficiency of laser energy transfer into these electrons depends on…

Nonlinear QED interactions induce different polarization properties on a given probe beam. We consider the polarization effects caused by the photon-photon interaction in laser experiments, when a laser beam propagates through a constant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-03 Soroush Shakeri , Seyed Zafarollah Kalantari , She-Sheng Xue

The acceleration of polarized electrons, positrons, protons and ions in strong laser and plasma fields is a very attractive option to obtain polarized beams in the multi-MeV range. Recently, there has been substantial progress in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Markus Büscher , Anna Hützen , Liangliang Ji , Andreas Lehrach

A theoretical investigation of the bound-free electron-positron pair production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is presented. Special attention is paid to the positrons emitted under large angles with respect to the beam direction. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-04 A. N. Artemyev , U. D. Jentschura , V. G. Serbo , A. Surzhykov

Polarized attosecond $\gamma-$rays may offer excitation and hyperfine tracking of reactions relevant to nuclear physics, astrophysics, high-energy physics, etc. However, unfortunately, generation of a feasible and easy-to-deploy source is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Li-Jie Cui , Ke-Jia Wei , Chong Lv , Feng Wan , Yousef I. Salamin , Lei-Feng Cao , Jian-Xing Li

In the collision of a high-energy proton beam and a strong laser field, merging of the laser photons can occur due to the polarization of vacuum. The probability of photon merging is calculated by accounting exactly for the laser field and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Di Piazza , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

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

In this work, the conversion of linear polarization of a laser beam to circular one through its forward scattering by a TeV order charged lepton beam in the presence of Lorentz violation correction is explored. We calculate the ratio of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-20 Seddigheh Tizchang , Rohoollah Mohammadi , She-Sheng Xue

Single $W$-boson production in $e^-\gamma$ collisions with polarized beams is investigated. In the framework of the Standard Model the updated estimates for the measurement precision of photon anomalous coupling parameters $ \kappa_{…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Huitu , J. Maalampi , M. Raidal

The process of $e^+e^-$ production in the superposition of a Coulomb and a strong laser field is considered. The pair production rate integrated over the momentum and summed over the spin projections of one of the particles is derived…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 A. Di Piazza , A. I. Milstein , C. Müller

For the 1994/95 run of the SLD experiment at SLAC, a Compton polarimeter measured the luminosity-weighted electron beam polarization to be (77.2 +- 0.5)%. This excellent accuracy is achieved by measuring the rate asymmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Woods , representing the SLD collaboration

The backward Compton scattering is a basic process at future higher energy photon colliders. To obtain a high probability of e->gamma conversion the density of laser photons in the conversion region should be so high that simultaneous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Galynskii , E. Kuraev , M. Levchuk , V. Telnov