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Via a combination of analytical and numerical methods, we study electron-positron pair creation by the electromagnetic field ${\bf A}(t,{\bf r})=[f(ct-x)+f(ct+x)]{\bf e}_y$ of two colliding laser pulses. Employing a generalized WKB…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 Christian Kohlfürst , Naser Ahmadiniaz , Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

The transformation of electromagnetic energy into matter represents a fascinating prediction of relativistic quantum electrodynamics that is paradigmatically exemplified by the creation of electron-positron pairs out of light. However, this…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-23 Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo

We consider the cross section of electron-positron pair production by a high-energy photon in a strong Coulomb field close to the end of electron or positron spectrum. We show that the cross section essentially differs from the result…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 A. Di Piazza , A. I. Milstein

We study nonperturbative multiphoton electron-positron pair creation in ultrastrong electromagnetic fields formed by two counterpropagating pulses with elliptic polarization. Our numerical approach allows us to take into account the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anton Wöllert , Heiko Bauke , Christoph H. Keitel

We consider the differential cross section of electron-positron pair production by a high-energy photon in a strong Coulomb field close to the end of the electron or positron spectrum. When the momentum transfer largely exceeds the electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Di Piazza , A. I. Milstein

An electron-positron pair ($e^- e^+$) is created in vacuum above a critical electric field strength $E_{crt}$ which is quite large in the laboratory scale. The photon, thus the field, annihilates in the pair creation process. Here, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Mehmet Emre Tasgin

Solutions of a kinetic equation are investigated which describe, on a nonperturbative basis, the vacuum creation of quasiparticle electron-positron pairs due to a strong laser field. The dependence of the quasiparticle electron (positron)…

High-energy-density electron-positron pair plasma production and its dynamics in a thin foil illuminated by two counter-propagating laser pulses are investigated through multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. We compare the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 W. Y. Liu , W. Luo , T. Yuan , J. Y. Yu , M. Chen , Z. M. Sheng

We study the structures in cross sections and R ratios concerning electron-positron annihilation reactions, for open-strangeness, open-charm and open-beauty hadron-pair production, from the perspective of a recently developed production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Eef van Beveren , George Rupp

We calculate the number of $e^+ e^-$-pairs produced by a Compton high energy photon in turn formed in the process $e + n \gamma_0 -> e + \gamma$ at simultaneous collision with several photons $\gamma_0$ of the same laser beam $\gamma + s…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 Mikhail Galynskii , Sergei Sikach

Classical and semi-classical energy states of relativistic electrons bounded by a massive and charged core with the charge-mass-radio Q/M and macroscopic radius R_c are discussed. We show that the energies of semi-classical (bound) states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Remo Ruffini , She-Sheng Xue

We present an indepth investigation of certain aspects of the two level on resonant multiphoton approximation to pair production from vacuum in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields. Numerical computations strongly suggest that a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Tsohantjis , S. Moustaizis , I. Ploumistakis

We study the Schwinger electron-positron pair production by a strong electromagnetic field of two colliding e-polarized laser pulses with a relative phase shift $\Psi$. The spatio-temporal distribution of created pairs is very sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Chitradip Banerjee , Manoranjan P. Singh , Alexander M. Fedotov

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 process of neutrino production of electron positron pairs in a magnetic field of arbitrary strength, where electrons and positrons can be created in the states corresponding to excited Landau levels, is analysed. The mean value of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-15 A. V. Kuznetsov , D. A. Rumyantsev , V. N. Savin

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

Energy-angular distributions of electron-positron pair creation in collisions of a laser beam and a nonlaser photon are calculated using the $S$-matrix formalism. The laser field is modeled as a finite pulse, similar to the formulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Krajewska , J. Z. Kaminski

We consider the electromagnetic production of positron in collision of slow heavy nuclei, with the simultaneously produced electron captured by one of the nuclei. The cross-section of the discussed process exceeds essentially the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 I. B. Khriplovich

Resonant e+e- pair production by an electron in a magnetic field near the process threshold has been analytically studied. Using the Nikishov's theorem an estimation of the number of events has been made in the magnetic field equivalent to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 O. P. Novak , R. I. Kholodov

The nonperturbative regime of electron-positron pair creation by a relativistic proton beam colliding with a highly intense bichromatic laser field is studied. The laser wave is composed of a strong low-frequency and a weak high-frequency…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-09 Sven Augustin , Carsten Müller