[HTML][HTML] Advances in QED with intense background fields

A Fedotov, A Ilderton, F Karbstein, B King, D Seipt… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic
particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This …

Production of polarized particle beams via ultraintense laser pulses

T Sun, Q Zhao, K Xue, ZW Lu, LL Ji, F Wan… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - Springer
High-energy spin-polarized electron, positron, and γ-photon beams have many significant
applications in the study of material properties, nuclear structure, particle physics, and high …

From local to nonlocal: higher fidelity simulations of photon emission in intense laser pulses

TG Blackburn, AJ MacLeod, B King - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
State-of-the-art numerical simulations of quantum electrodynamical (QED) processes in
strong laser fields rely on a semiclassical combination of classical equations of motion and …

Nonlinear Compton scattering of polarized photons in plane-wave backgrounds

B King, S Tang - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We investigate the phenomenology of nonlinear Compton scattering of polarized photons by
unpolarized electrons in plane-wave backgrounds. The energy and angular spectra of …

Spin-and polarization-dependent locally-constant-field-approximation rates for nonlinear Compton and Breit-Wheeler processes

D Seipt, B King - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
In this paper we derive and discuss the completely spin-and photon-polarization-dependent
probability rates for nonlinear Compton scattering and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair …

[HTML][HTML] SFQEDtoolkit: a high-performance library for the accurate modeling of strong-field QED processes in PIC and Monte Carlo codes

S Montefiori, M Tamburini - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SFQED) processes are central in determining the
dynamics of particles and plasmas in extreme electromagnetic fields such as those present …

Helicity transfer in strong laser fields via the electron anomalous magnetic moment

YF Li, YY Chen, KZ Hatsagortsyan, CH Keitel - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Electron beam longitudinal polarization during the interaction with counterpropagating
circularly polarized ultraintense laser pulses is investigated, while accounting for the …

Loop spin effects in intense background fields

A Ilderton, B King, S Tang - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Radiative and nonradiative electron spin-flip probabilities are analyzed in both plane wave
and focused laser backgrounds. We provide a simple and physically transparent description …

[HTML][HTML] Photon polarization effects in polarized electron–positron pair production in a strong laser field

YN Dai, BF Shen, JX Li, R Shaisultanov… - Matter and Radiation …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Deep understanding of the impact of photon polarization on pair production is essential for
the efficient generation of laser-driven polarized positron beams and demands a complete …

Quantum radiation reaction in aligned crystals beyond the local constant field approximation

TN Wistisen, A Di Piazza, CF Nielsen, AH Sørensen… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We report on experimental spectra of photons radiated by 50-GeV positrons crossing silicon
single crystals of thicknesses 1.1, 2.0, 4.2, and 6.2 mm at sufficiently small angles to the …