A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high power lasers
We present a proposal for testing the prediction of non-equilibrium quantum field theory below the Schwinger limit. The proposed experiments should be able to detect a measurable number of gamma rays resulting from the annihilation of pairs in the focal spot of two opposing high intensity laser beam...
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| author | Gregori, G Blaschke, D Rajeev, P Chen, H Clarke, R Huffman, T Murphy, C Prozorkevich, A Roberts, C Röpke, G Schmidt, S Smolyansky, SA Wilks, S Bingham, R |
| author_facet | Gregori, G Blaschke, D Rajeev, P Chen, H Clarke, R Huffman, T Murphy, C Prozorkevich, A Roberts, C Röpke, G Schmidt, S Smolyansky, SA Wilks, S Bingham, R |
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| description | We present a proposal for testing the prediction of non-equilibrium quantum field theory below the Schwinger limit. The proposed experiments should be able to detect a measurable number of gamma rays resulting from the annihilation of pairs in the focal spot of two opposing high intensity laser beams. We discuss the dependence of the expected number of gamma rays with the laser parameters and compare with the estimated background level of gamma hits for realistic laser conditions. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5788dcaa-3568-4e33-ada6-9ed6fc2539cf2022-03-26T16:57:21ZA proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high power lasersJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:5788dcaa-3568-4e33-ada6-9ed6fc2539cfEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Gregori, GBlaschke, DRajeev, PChen, HClarke, RHuffman, TMurphy, CProzorkevich, ARoberts, CRöpke, GSchmidt, SSmolyansky, SAWilks, SBingham, RWe present a proposal for testing the prediction of non-equilibrium quantum field theory below the Schwinger limit. The proposed experiments should be able to detect a measurable number of gamma rays resulting from the annihilation of pairs in the focal spot of two opposing high intensity laser beams. We discuss the dependence of the expected number of gamma rays with the laser parameters and compare with the estimated background level of gamma hits for realistic laser conditions. |
| spellingShingle | Gregori, G Blaschke, D Rajeev, P Chen, H Clarke, R Huffman, T Murphy, C Prozorkevich, A Roberts, C Röpke, G Schmidt, S Smolyansky, SA Wilks, S Bingham, R A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high power lasers |
| title | A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high
power lasers |
| title_full | A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high
power lasers |
| title_fullStr | A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high
power lasers |
| title_full_unstemmed | A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high
power lasers |
| title_short | A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high
power lasers |
| title_sort | proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with high power lasers |
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