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View SchemaObservable effects caused by vacuum pair creation in the field of high-power optical lasers
| Authors | David B. Blaschke, Andrey V. Filatov, Irina A. Egorova, Alexander V. Prozorkevich, Stanislav A. Smolyansky |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0612173 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612173 |
| DOI | 10.1117/12.754005 |
| Journal | Saratov Fall Meeting 2006: Laser Physics and Photonics, Spectroscopy and Molecular Modeling VII, Proceedings of SPIE, V.6537, (2007) p.653708 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
We consider the possibility of an experimental proof of vacuum e+e- pair creation in the focus of two counter-propagating optical laser beams with an intensity of the order of 10^20 - 10^22 W/cm^2. Our approach is based on the collisionless kinetic equation for the distribution function of the e+e- pairs with the source term for particle production. As a possible experimental signal of vacuum pair production we consider the refraction of a high-frequency probe laser beam by the produced e+e- plasma to be observed by an interference filter. The generation of higher harmonics of the laser frequency in the self-consistent electric field is also investigated.
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