Exact results for scattering on ultra-short plane wave backgrounds
arXiv:1909.02484 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.125018
Abstract
We give exact results for the emission spectra of both nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production and nonlinear Compton scattering in ultra-intense, ultra-short duration plane wave backgrounds, modelled as delta-function pulses. This includes closed form expressions for total scattering probabilities. We show explicitly that these probabilities do not exhibit the power-law scaling with intensity associated with the conjectured breakdown of (Furry picture) perturbation theory, instead scaling logarithmically in the high-intensity limit.
9 pages, 4 pdf figures
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