Sauter-Schwinger effect for colliding laser pulses

Christian Kohlfürst, Naser Ahmadiniaz, Johannes Oertel +1

Via a combination of analytical and numerical methods, we study electron-positron pair creation by the electromagnetic field $\mathbf{A}(t,\mathbf{r})=[f(ct-x)+f(ct+x)]{\mathbf{e}}_y$ of two…