2013/02/28 by A. Gonoskov, Arkady Gonoskov, I. Gonoskov +11 · 106 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Dipole #Laser #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma #Pair production #Particle physics #Physics #Quality (philosophy) #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #hep-ph #physics.plasm-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.111.060404
published in Physical Review Letters 111(6), 060404 (American Physical Society) · 5 pages, 2 pdf figures. Version 2: extended discussion of cascades, references updated. To appear in PRL
arxiv created 2013/07/26 · openalex publication_date 2013/08/08 · arxiv updated 2013/08/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study nonperturbative pair production in intense, focused laser fields called e-dipole pulses. We address the conditions required, such as the quality of the vacuum, for reaching high intensities without initiating beam-depleting cascades, the number of pairs which can be created, and experimental detection of the created pairs. We find that e-dipole pulses offer an optimal method of investigating nonperturbative QED.