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We report on the recent progress in the investigation of the influence of hyperacoustic vibrations on the coherent electron-positron pair creation by high-energy photons in crystals. In dependence of the values for the parameters, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Mkrtchyan , L. Sh. Grigoryan , A. A. Saharian , V. V. Parazian

We give an exact, analytic, and manifestly gauge invariant account of pair production in combined longitudinal and transverse electromagnetic fields, both depending arbitrarily on lightfront time. The instantaneous, nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-19 Florian Hebenstreit , Anton Ilderton , Mattias Marklund

We study electron-positron pair production within two counter-propagating, circularly polarized electromagnetic fields through the Wigner formalism. We numerically generate high-resolution momentum maps to perform a detailed spectroscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-05 Christian Kohlfürst

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

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

Sauter-Schwinger pair creation in electromagnetic fields is a fundamental prediction of QED and one of the motivations for the present efforts in constructing super-strong lasers. I will give a historical review of the subject, and then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 Christian Schubert

The electron-positron pair creation in a supercritical static asymmetric potential well, which is composed of a subcritical and a supercritical potential separated by a fixed distance, is investigated using computational quantum field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Z. L. Li , A. R. Sun , J. H. Xia , J. X. Wu , Y. J. Li

Pair creation by a photon in an oriented crystal is considered in a frame of the quasiclassical operator method, which includes processes with polarized particles. Under some quite generic assumptions the general expression is derived for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

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

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

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 investigate the phenomenon of electron-positron pair production from vacuum in the presence of a strong electric field of circular polarization. By means of a nonperturbative approach based on the quantum kinetic equations (QKEs), we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-04 I. A. Aleksandrov , A. Kudlis

We investigate the spin correlations between electron-positron pairs created from a photon when it scatters in a high-intensity laser pulse via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. We find that the spin states of the generated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-10 S. Tang , B. M. Dillon , B. King

Process of lepton pair production by polarized photon on nuclei can be used to measure the degree of linear polarization of high energy photon. The differential cross section and the analyzing power are calculated with taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Bakmaev , E. A. Kuraev , I. Shapoval , Yu. P. Peresunko

We propose a new mechanism to screen the electric field in the pulsar polar cap. Previous studies have shown that if an electron beam from the stellar surface is accelerated to energies high enough to create electron-positron pairs, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katsuaki Asano , Fumio Takahara

Recent theoretical investigations of pair-production probabilities for given sets of nuclear trajectories predict the observability of spontaneous positron emission in elastic collisions of heavy ions. These calculations are extended to the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Theo de Reus

Analytical solutions of the Dirac equation in an external electromagnetic field are found such that according to the field-theoretic interpretation electron-positron pairs are trapped for a period of time. The naive one-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-25 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

The dominant emission from bare strange stars is thought to be electron-positron pairs, produced through spontaneous pair creation (SPC) in a surface layer of electrons tied to the star by a superstrong electric field. The positrons escape…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. B. Melrose , R. Fok , D. P. Menezes

Using a quantum kinetic equation coupled to Maxwell's equation we study the possibility that focused beams at proposed X-ray free electron laser facilities can generate electric field strengths large enough to cause spontaneous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Alkofer , M. B. Hecht , C. D. Roberts , S. M. Schmidt , D. V. Vinnik

We investigate the effect of pair creation on a shock structure. Actually, particles accelerated by a shock can be sufficiently energetic to boost, via Inverse Compton (IC) process for example, surrounding soft photons above the rest mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. O. Petrucci , G. Henri , G. Pelletier