Catalysis of Schwinger vacuum pair production

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作者：
Dunne, Gerald V. [1 ,2 ]
Gies, Holger [2 ,3 ]
Schuetzhold, Ralf [4 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Connecticut, Dept Phys, Storrs, CT 06269 USA
[2] Univ Jena, Inst Theoret Phys, D-07743 Jena, Germany
[3] Helmholtz Inst Jena, D-07743 Jena, Germany
[4] Univ Duisburg Essen, Fak Phys, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany
来源：
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 80卷 / 11期
关键词：
ELECTRON;
D O I：
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.111301
中图分类号：
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号：
0704 ;
摘要：
We propose a new catalysis mechanism for nonperturbative vacuum electron-positron pair production, by superimposing a plane-wave x-ray probe beam with a strongly focused optical laser pulse, such as is planned at the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) facility. We compute the absorption coefficient arising from vacuum polarization effects for photons below threshold in a strong electric field. This setup should facilitate the (first) observation of this nonperturbative QED effect with planned light sources such as ELI yielding an envisioned intensity of order 10(26) W/cm(2).
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