All-optical nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production with -flash photons

AJ MacLeod, P Hadjisolomou, TM Jeong, SV Bulanov - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
High-power laser facilities give experimental access to fundamental strong-field quantum
electrodynamics processes. A key effect to be explored is the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler …

Gamma-flash generation in multi-petawatt laser–matter interactions

P Hadjisolomou, TM Jeong, D Kolenaty… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The progressive development of high power lasers over the last several decades enables
the study of c-photon generation when an intense laser beam interacts with matter, mainly …

Multiplicity of electron-and photon-seeded electromagnetic showers at multipetawatt laser facilities

M Pouyez, AA Mironov, T Grismayer, A Mercuri-Baron… - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Electromagnetic showers develo** from the collision of an ultraintense laser pulse with a
beam of high-energy electrons or photons are investigated under conditions relevant to …

Dynamically assisted nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in bichromatic laser fields of circular polarization

N Mahlin, S Villalba-Chávez, C Müller - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Production of electron-positron pairs by a high-energy γ photon and a bichromatic laser
wave is considered where the latter is composed of a strong low-frequency and a weak high …

Impact of laser focusing and radiation reaction on particle spectra from nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in the nonperturbative regime

A Eckey, A Golub, FC Salgado, S Villalba-Chávez… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Near-future experiments intend to detect strong-field Breit-Wheeler pair creation from the
collision between bremsstrahlung bursts containing GeV-γ quanta and high-intensity laser …

Signatures for strong-field QED in the quantum limit of beamstrahlung

WL Zhang, T Grismayer, LO Silva - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Signatures for strong-field quantum electrodynamics are determined for collisions between
round ultrarelativistic leptonic beams in the quantum limit of beamstrahlung. In the low …

Effect of spatially oscillating field on Schwinger pair production

O Amat, LN Hu, MA Bake, M Mohamedsedik, BS **e - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Effect of spatially oscillating field on Schwinger pair production is studied numerically and
analytically when the work done by the electric field over its spatial extent is smaller than …

Feasibility of measuring nonanalytic QED coupling from pair creation in strong fields

B King, S Tang - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
In the quasistatic regimes of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler and trident pair creation, the rates can
exhibit a nonanalytic dependency on the fundamental coupling of quantum electrodynamics …

Light-amplified Landau-Zener conductivity in gapped graphene monolayers: A simulacrum of photocatalyzed vacuum instability

S Villalba-Chávez, O Mathiak, R Egger, C Müller - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Interband transitions of electrons in a gapped graphene monolayer are highly stimulated
near the Fermi surface when a high-frequency electric wave of weak intensity and a strong …

Spinning pairs: Supporting quark-pair creation from Landau-gauge Green's functions

R Alkofer, FJ Llanes-Estrada, A Salas-Bernárdez - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Abundant phenomenology suggests that strong decays from relatively low-excitation
hadrons into other hadrons proceed by the creation of a light quark-antiquark pair with zero …