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The process of electron-positron pair creation through multi-photon absorption in a space-time dependent electric field is analyzed using computational quantum field theory. Our findings reveal two distinct pair creation channels: the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 C. K. Li , X. X. Zhou , Q. Chen , B. An , Y. J. Li , N. S. Lin , Y. Wan

We evaluate particle production in highly asymmetric head-on collisions of lasers pulses due to non-perturbative coherent action of many photons. We obtain the yield of electron-positron pairs, which is controlled by the photon content of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-29 Lance Labun , Johann Rafelski

We consider stimulated pair production employing strong-field QED in a high-intensity laser background. In an infinite plane wave, we show that light-cone quasi-momentum can only be transferred to the created pair as a multiple of the laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-23 Thomas Heinzl , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund

The creation of particles by two colliding strong laser beams is considered. It is found that the electron-positron pairs created in the laser field via the Schwinger mechanism may recollide after one or several oscillations in the field.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-24 Michael Kuchiev , Julian Ingham

It is shown that the amplitudes of electron-ion scattering and $e^+e^-$ pair production in the Coulomb field of two colliding ions are sxpressed in the terms of electron scattering amplitudes in the fields of the individual ions via the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Sissakian , A. V. Tarasov , H. T. Torosyan , O. O. Voskresenskaya

The process of pair creation by a photon in a constant and homogeneous electric field is investigated basing on the polarization operator in the field. The total probability of the process is found in a relatively simple form. At high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

It is shown that even a single $e^-e^+$ pair created by a super strong laser field in vacuum would cause development of an avalanche-like QED cascade which rapidly depletes the incoming laser pulse. This confirms the old N. Bohr conjecture…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 A. M. Fedotov , N. B. Narozhny , G. Mourou , G. Korn

We investigate electron-positron pair production in pulse-shaped electric background fields using a non-Markovian quantum kinetic equation. We identify a pulse-length range for subcritical fields still in the nonperturbative regime where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Florian Hebenstreit , Reinhard Alkofer , Holger Gies

A new method for calculations of electron-positron pair-creation probabilities in low-energy heavy-ion collisions is developed. The approach is based on the propagation of all one-electron states via the numerical solving of the…

In this paper we study the possibility of efficient pair production in a pulsar's magnetosphere. It has been shown that by means of the relativistic centrifugal force the electrostatic field exponentially amplifies. As a result the field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-14 Z. Osmanov , G. Machabeli , N. Chkheidze

Researches on the electron-positron pair production in the presence of the intense laser field are reviewed, motivated by the theoretical importance of the nonperturbative QED problem and the worldwide development of the strong laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Huayu Hu

A detailed analysis of electron-positron pair creation induced by a spatially nonuniform and static electric field from vacuum is presented. A typical example is provided by the Sauter potential. For this potential, we derive the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-20 A. Chervyakov , H. Kleinert

Production of electron-positron pairs in the superposition of oscillating electric-field pulses with largely different frequencies is studied, focussing on the impact of relative phases between the pulses. Various field configurations are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 J. Braß , D. M. Müller , S. Villalba-Chávez , K. Krajewska , C. Müller

Electromagnetic showers from high-energy electron beams interacting with a target are a promising path to creating pair plasmas in the laboratory. Here, we solve analytically the kinetic equations describing this process. Two regimes are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 M. Pouyez , G. Nicotera , M. Galbiati , T. Grismayer , L. Lancia , C. Riconda , M. Grech

The creation of electron-positron pairs by the strong-field Breit-Wheeler process in intense short laser pulses is investigated in the framework of laser-dressed quantum electrodynamics. Regarding laser field parameters in the multiphoton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-01 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

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

We study the pair-production process in the presence of two counterpropagating linearly polarized short laser pulses. By means of a nonperturbative technique, we take into account the full coordinate dependence of the external field going…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-10 I. A. Aleksandrov , G. Plunien , V. M. Shabaev

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.…

This work provides an overview of our recent results in studying two most important and widely discussed quantum processes: electron-positron pairs production off a probe photon propagating through a polarized short-pulsed electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Alexander I. Titov , Burkhard Kampfer , Atsushi Hosaka , Hideaki Takabe

We discuss the mechanism of production of electron-positron pairs from the vacuum in a time-varying, spatially uniform pulsed electric field. We analytically compute the probability of $(e^+ e^-) $pair production in momentum space using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-14 Deepak Sah , Manoranjan P. Singh