Rise and fall of laser-intensity effects in spectrally resolved Compton process
Rise and fall of laser-intensity effects in spectrally resolved Compton process
Hernandez Acosta, U.; Titov, A.; Kämpfer, B.
The laser intensity dependence of nonlinear Compton scattering is discussed in some detail. For sufficiently hard photons with energy ω', the spectrally resolved differential cross section dσ/dω'|ω'=const, rises from small toward larger laser intensity parameter ξ, reaches a maximum, and falls toward the asymptotic strong-field region. Such a rise and fall of a differential observable is to be contrasted with the monotonously increasing laser intensity dependence of the total probability, which is governed by the soft spectral part. We combine that hard-photon yield from Compton scattering with the seeded Breit–Wheeler pair production in a folding model and obtain a rapidly increasing e+e− pair number at ξ ≲ 4. Laser bandwidth effects are quantified in the weak-field limit of the related trident pair production.
Keywords: non-linear Compton scattering; nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production; strong-field QED
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New Journal of Physics 23(2021), 095008
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac21e0
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