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Initial Performance of the E320 Tracker
Oleksandr Borysov, Sébastien Corde, Gal Evenzur +12
Our recent study discussed the prospects for measuring single positrons produced in electron-laser collisions via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler deep-tunneling process in the SLAC Exp…
Prospects for the production and detection of Breit-Wheeler tunneling positrons in Experiment 320 at the FACET-II accelerator
Oleksandr Borysov, Alon Levi, Sebastian Meuren +7
The SLAC Experiment 320 collides 10 TW-class laser pulses with the high-quality, 10 GeV electron beam from the FACET-II RF LINAC. This setup is expected to produce a sizable number…
Testing strong-field QED with the avalanche precursor
A. A. Mironov, S. S. Bulanov, A. Di Piazza +8
A two-beam high-power laser facility is essential for the study of one of the most captivating phenomena predicted by strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) and yet unobserved…
A High-Flux Electron Detector System to Measure Non-linear Compton Scattering at LUXE
Antonios Athanassiadis, Robert Ariniello, Louis Helary +14
Recently, advancements in high-intensity laser technology have enabled the exploration of non-perturbative Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in strong-field regimes. Notable aspects in…
Input to the European Strategy for Particle Physics: Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics
G. Sarri, B. King, T. Blackburn +21
This document sets out the intention of the strong-field QED community to carry out, both experimentally and numerically, high-statistics parametric studies of quantum electrodynam…
Strong-field ionization in particle-in-cell simulations
A. A. Mironov, E. G. Gelfer, I. I. Tupitsyn +11
The inclusion of the process of multiple ionization of atoms in high-intensity electromagnetic fields into particle-in-cell (PIC) codes applied to the simulation of laser-plasma in…
Creating pair plasmas with observable collective effects
Kenan Qu, Sebastian Meuren, Nathaniel J. Fisch
Although existing technology cannot yet directly produce fields at the Schwinger level, experimental facilities can already explore strong-field QED phenomena by taking advantage o…
Commissioning and first measurements of the initial X-ray and γ-ray detectors at FACET-II
P. San Miguel Claveria, D. Storey, G. J. Cao +21
The upgraded Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET-II) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has been designed to deliver ultra-relativistic electron and po…
Collective plasma effects of electron-positron pairs in beam-driven QED cascades
Kenan Qu, Sebastian Meuren, Nathaniel J. Fisch
Understanding the interplay of strong-field QED and collective plasma effects is important for explaining extreme astrophysical environments like magnetars. It has been shown that…
MP3 White Paper 2021 -- Research Opportunities Enabled by Co-locating Multi-Petawatt Lasers with Dense Ultra-Relativistic Electron Beams
Sebastian Meuren, David A. Reis, Roger Blandford +11
Novel emergent phenomena are expected to occur under conditions exceeding the QED critical electric field, where the vacuum becomes unstable to electron-positron pair production. T…
Resummation of QED radiative corrections in a strong constant crossed field
A. A. Mironov, S. Meuren, A. M. Fedotov
By considering radiative corrections of up to 3rd-loop order, Ritus and Narozhny conjectured that the proper expansion parameter for QED in a strong constant crossed field is $g=αχ…
On Seminal HEDP Research Opportunities Enabled by Colocating Multi-Petawatt Laser with High-Density Electron Beams
Sebastian Meuren, Phil H. Bucksbaum, Nathaniel J. Fisch +7
The scientific community is currently witnessing an expensive and worldwide race to achieve the highest possible light intensity. Within the next decade this effort is expected to…
Signature of Collective Plasma Effects in Beam-Driven QED Cascades
Kenan Qu, Sebastian Meuren, Nathaniel J. Fisch
QED cascades play an important role in extreme astrophysical environments like magnetars. They can also be produced by passing a relativistic electron beam through an intense laser…
Efficient High-Energy Photon Production in the Supercritical QED Regime
Matteo Tamburini, Sebastian Meuren
When dense high-energy lepton bunches collide, the beam particles can experience rest-frame electromagnetic fields which greatly exceed the QED critical one. Here it is demonstrate…
Are we ready to transfer optical light to gamma-rays?
Marija Vranic, Thomas Grismayer, Sebastian Meuren +2
Scattering relativistic electrons with optical lasers can result in a significant frequency upshift for the photons, potentially producing -rays. This is what linear Compton sca…
Improved local-constant-field approximation for strong-field QED codes
A. Di Piazza, M. Tamburini, S. Meuren +1
The local-constant-field approximation (LCFA) is an essential theoretical tool for investigating strong-field QED phenomena in background electromagnetic fields with complex spacet…
On the Prospect of Studying Nonperturbative QED with Beam-Beam Collisions
V. Yakimenko, S. Meuren, F. Del Gaudio +8
We demonstrate the possibility of probing for the first time the fully nonperturbative regime of quantum electrodynamics. By using tightly compressed and focused electron beams in…
High-Energy Vacuum Birefringence and Dichroism in an Ultrastrong Laser Field
Sergey Bragin, Sebastian Meuren, Christoph H. Keitel +1
A long-standing prediction of quantum electrodynamics, yet to be experimentally observed, is the interaction between real photons in vacuum. As a consequence of this interaction, t…
Minicharged particles search by strong laser pulse-induced vacuum polarization effects
Selym Villalba-Chávez, Sebastian Meuren, Carsten Müller
Laser-based searches of the yet unobserved vacuum birefringence might be sensitive for very light hypothetical particles carrying a tiny fraction of the electron charge. We show th…
Nonlinear neutrino-photon interactions inside strong laser pulses
Sebastian Meuren, Christoph H. Keitel, Antonino Di Piazza
Even though neutrinos are neutral particles and interact only via the exchange of weak gauge bosons, charged leptons and quarks can mediate a coupling to the photon field beyond tr…
Semiclassical picture for electron-positron photoproduction in strong laser fields
Sebastian Meuren, Christoph H. Keitel, Antonino Di Piazza
The nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process is studied in the presence of strong and short laser pulses. We show that for a relativistically intense plane-wave laser field many features of…
High-Energy Recollision Processes of Laser-Generated Electron-Positron Pairs
Sebastian Meuren, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Christoph H. Keitel +1
Two oppositely charged particles created within a microscopic space-time region can be separated, accelerated over a much larger distance, and brought to a recollision by a laser f…
Polarization operator approach to pair creation in short laser pulses
Sebastian Meuren, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Christoph H. Keitel +1
Short-pulse effects are investigated for the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, i.e. the production of an electron-positron pair induced by a gamma photon inside an intense plane-wav…
Polarization operator for plane-wave background fields
S. Meuren, C. H. Keitel, A. Di Piazza
We derive an alternative representation of the leading-order contribution to the polarization operator in strong-field quantum electrodynamics with a plane-wave electromagnetic bac…