Modeling of photon and pair production due to quantum electrodynamics effects in particle-in-cell simulation

2016/08/23 by Wenqi Wang, Z. M. Sheng, Wang, W. -M. +5
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Radiation Effects in Electronics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1608.06356

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Abstract

We develop the particle-in-cell (PIC) code KLAPS to include the photon generation via the Compton scattering and electron-positron creation via the Breit-Wheeler process due to quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects. We compare two sets of existing formulas for the photon generation and different Monte Carlo algorithms. Then we benchmark the PIC simulation results.

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