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In the recent Letter [1] we considered the approach of nonequilibrium pair plasma towards thermal equilibrium state adopting a kinetic treatment and solving numerically the relativistic Boltzmann equations. It was shown that plasma in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-26 A. G. Aksenov , R. Ruffini , G. V. Vereshchagin

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

We study the electron-positron pair production process in strong background electric fields with spatio-temporal inhomogeneity in the time-dependent Basis Light-front Quantization approach. We calculate the observables such as the invariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-06 Zhiyu Lei , Bolun Hu , Xingbo Zhao

The common tunneling picture of electron-positron pair creation in a strong electric field is generalized to pair creation in combined crossed electric and magnetic fields. This enhanced picture, being symmetric for electrons and positrons,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Anton Wöllert , Michael Klaiber , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

We present a generalization of Vlasov-Maxwell kinetic theory that accounts for intense electromagnetic fields. A strongly-radiating, possibly optically-thick plasma is decomposed into fragments, each comprising a charged particle together…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 J. W. Burby , P. J. Morrison

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

In the present work a closed system of kinetic equations is obtained for the description of the vacuum creation of an electron - positron plasma and secondary photons due to a strong laser field. An estimate for the photon energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-12-09 D. B. Blaschke , S. M. Schmidt , S. A. Smolyansky , A. V. Tarakanov

Radiation spectrum of extreme relativistic electrons and a probability of electron-positron pair production by energetic photons in a strong plasma wakefield are derived in the framework of a semiclassical approach. It is shown that that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Nerush , I. Kostyukov

We report the observation of plasma oscillations in an ultracold neutral plasma. With this collective mode we probe the electron density distribution and study the expansion of the plasma as a function of time. For classical plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. Kulin , T. C. Killian , S. D. Bergeson , S. L. Rolston

Integrating equations of particle-number and energy-momentum conservation and Maxwell field equations, we study the oscillation and drift of electron and positron pairs coherently with fields after these pairs are produced in external…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Wen-Biao Han , She-Sheng Xue

The probability-generating function of the number of electron-positron pairs produced in a uniform electric field is constructed. The mean and variance of the numbers of pairs are calculated, and analytical expressions for the probability…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 M. I. Krivoruchenko

The processes of the photon and electron-positron pair production by a neutrino propagating in a strong magnetic field are investigated in the framework of the Standard Model. The process probabilities and the mean values of the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Gvozdev , A. V. Kuznetsov , N. V. Mikheev , L. A. Vassilevskaya

The problem of the backreaction during the process of electron-positron pair production by a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave propagating in a plasma is investigated. A model based on the relativistic Boltzmann-Vlasov equation with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 S. S. Bulanov , A. M. Fedotov , F. Pegoraro

Under quite generic assumptions the general expression is derived for the probability of circularly polarized photon emission from the longitudinally polarized electron and for the probability of pair creation of longitudinally polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

Production of electron-positron pairs in two oscillating strong electric field pulses with largely different frequencies and durations is considered. In a first scenario, the influence of a low-frequency background field on pair production…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 N. Folkerts , J. Putzer , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

The process of electron-positron annihilation into two photons in the presence of an intense classical plane wave of an arbitrary shape is investigated analytically by employing light-cone quantization and by taking into account the effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-29 S. Bragin , A. Di Piazza

The mechanism of pair creation in electrosphere of compact astrophysical objects such as quark stars or neutron stars is revisited, paying attention to evaporation of electrons and acceleration of electrons and positrons, previously not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Mikalai Prakapenia , Gregory Vereshchagin

Supplementing our STM and electron emission studies investigations, concluding in electron pairing in strong laser fields [1], further time-of-flight electron emission studies were carried out, changing the angle of polarization of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-02 N. Kroó , P. Rácz , S. Varró

We investigate electron-positron pair production from the vacuum in presence of a strong oscillating electric field with a multi-pulse structure and variable inter-pulse delay. The pair production probabilities are computed by numerically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Abhinav Jangir

We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. Polarization effects in this process are important for a number of physical problems. A probability of this process for circularly or linearly polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Yu. Ivanov , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo