The Weizsacker-Williams Approximation to Trident Production in Electron-Photon Collisions

2000/04/12 by C. Bula, Bula, C., Kirk T. McDonald +2
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0004117

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Abstract

The appears to exist no detailed calculation of the multiphoton trident process e + n omega₀ -> e' + e+e-, which can occur during the interaction of an electron beam with an intense laser beam. We present a calculation in the Weizsacker-Williams approximation that is in good agreement with QED calculations for the weak-field case.

Citations

• Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd ed .

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