Nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process in the collision of a photon with two plane waves

Yuan-Bin Wu and She-Sheng Xue
Phys. Rev. D 90, 013009 – Published 11 July 2014

Abstract

The nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process of electron-positron pair production off a probe photon colliding with a low-frequency and a high-frequency electromagnetic wave that propagate in the same direction is analyzed. We calculate the pair-production probability and the spectra of the created pair in the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler processes of pair production off a probe photon colliding with two plane waves or one of these two plane waves. The differences of these two cases are discussed. We evidently show, in the two-wave case, the possibility of Breit-Wheeler pair production with simultaneous photon emission into the low-frequency wave and the high multiphoton phenomena: (i) Breit-Wheeler pair production by absorption of the probe photon and a large number of photons from the low-frequency wave, in addition to the absorption of one photon from the high-frequency wave; (ii) Breit-Wheeler pair production by absorption of the probe photon and one photon from the high-frequency wave with simultaneous emission of a large number of photons into the low-frequency wave. The phenomenon of photon emission into the wave cannot happen in the one-wave case. Compared with the one-wave case, the contributions from high multiphoton processes are largely enhanced in the two-wave case. The results presented in this article show a possible way to access the observations of the phenomenon of photon emission into the wave and high multiphoton phenomenon in Breit-Wheeler pair production even with the laser-beam intensity of order 1018W/cm2.

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  • Received 16 March 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.013009

© 2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yuan-Bin Wu1,2,3,* and She-Sheng Xue1,2,†

  • 1Department of Physics and ICRA, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
  • 2ICRANet, Piazza della Repubblica 10, I-65122 Pescara, Italy
  • 3ICRANet, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 28 Avenue de Valrose, 06103 Nice Cedex 2, France

  • *Corresponding author. wuyb@icranet.org
  • xue@icranet.it

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Vol. 90, Iss. 1 — 1 July 2014

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