Positron energy distribution in factorized trident process
Positron energy distribution in factorized trident process
Titov, A.; Hernandez Acosta, U.; Kämpfer, B.
We estimate the energy distribution of positrons produced in the interaction of ultra-relativistic electrons with a high-intensity laser beam. The underlying trident process is factorized on the probabilistic level. That is, we deploy a two-step mechanism for the formation of electron-positron pairs. In the first step, a high-energy photon is produced as a result of nonlinear Compton scattering. In the second step, an electron-positron pair is created by the nonlinear (multi-photon) Breit-Wheeler process.
Keywords: trident; nonlinear Compton scattering; nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production; strong-field QED
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arXiv:2108.13043 [hep-ph]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13043 -
Physical Review A 104(2021)6, 062811
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.062811
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