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The magnificent development of strong X-ray lasers motivates the advancement of pair production process studies into higher laser frequency region. In this paper, a resonant electron-positron pair production process with the absorption of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Huayu Hu , Jie Huang

Understanding the interplay of strong-field QED and collective plasma effects is important for explaining extreme astrophysical environments like magnetars. It has been shown that QED pair plasmas is possible to be produced and observed by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Kenan Qu , Sebastian Meuren , Nathaniel J. Fisch

The non-perturbative electron-positron pair production in time-dependent electric fields is investigated. The quantum kinetic formalism is employed in order to calculate the electron density for various field configurations. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-06 Christian Kohlfürst

High laser intensities enable the production of electron-positron pairs from bright gamma rays passing through strong fields. Potentially the most promising approach for all-optical experiments in the near term uses dense but higher…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Christopher Arran , Stuart Morris , Christopher P. Ridgers

Free-electron lasers (FELs) generate the brightest coherent X-ray pulses available, enabling atomic-resolution and femtosecond-timescale studies across physics, chemistry, and biology. Realising their full potential at extreme peak powers…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Çağrı Erciyes , Christoph H. Keitel , Matteo Tamburini

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

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 present the results of kinetic modelling of quantum effects in laser-beam interaction. In the developed numerical model, electron-positron pair production by hard photons, hard photon emission and the electromagnetic fields generated by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Evgeny Nerush , Igor Kostyukov

We investigate electron-positron pair creation in the interaction of a nuclear Coulomb field and a highly intense two-mode laser field. For bichromatic laser fields, we examine the differences arising for commensurable and incommensurable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 Sven Augustin , Carsten Müller

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

Photoproduction of electron-positron pairs by the strong-field Breit-Wheeler process in an intense laser field is studied. The laser field is assumed to consist of two consecutive short pulses, with a variable time delay in between. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Martin J. A. Jansen , Carsten Müller

We consider the details of the QED processes that create electron-positron pairs in magnetic fields approaching and exceeding 10^{14} G. The formation of free and bound pairs is addressed, and the importance of positronium dissociation by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Thompson

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

X-ray free electron lasers will be constructed in this decade, both at SLAC in the form of the so-called Linac Coherent Light Source as well as at DESY, where the so-called TESLA XFEL laboratory uses techniques developed for the design of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. Ringwald

We study particle - antiparticle pair production under action of a strong time dependent space homogeneous electric field at the presence of a collinear constant magnetic field. We derive the kinetic equation for a such field configuration…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. V. Tarakanov , A. V. Reichel , S. A. Smolyansky , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

Creation of electrons and positrons from light alone is a basic prediction of quantum electrodynamics, but yet to be observed. Here we show that it is possible to create ${>}10^8$ positrons by dual laser irradiation of a structured plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Y. He , T. G. Blackburn , T. Toncian , A. V. Arefiev

Numerical estimates for pair production from vacuum in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields are derived, for two experimental schemes : the First concerns a laser based X-FEL and the other imitates the E144 experiment. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 I. Ploumistakis , S. D. Moustaizis , I. Tsohantjis

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

Electron-positron pair production from vacuum in a strong electric field oscillating in time is studied. The field is assumed to consist of two consecutive pulses, with variable time delay in between. Pair production probabilities are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 L. F. Granz , O. Mathiak , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

Electron-positron pairs' generation occuring in the interaction of $10^{18}$-$10^{20}$~W/cm$^2$ laser radiation with high-Z targets are examined. Computational results are presented for the pair production and the positron yield from the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Gryaznykh , Y. Z. Kandiev , V. A. Lykov