Pair production in counter-propagating laser beams

Details Pair production in counter-propagating laser beams Pair production in counter-propagating laser beams

2009-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0987v2

Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51 (2009) 085008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

28 pages. Typo corrected, references added. Accepted for publication in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Scientific paper

10.1088/0741-3335/51/8/085008

Based on an analysis of a specific electron trajectory in counter-propagating beams, Bell & Kirk (PRL 101, 200403 (2008)) recently suggested that laboratory lasers may shortly be able to produce significant numbers of electron-positron pairs. We confirm their results using an improved treatment of nonlinear Compton scattering in the laser beams. Implementing an algorithm that integrates classical electron trajectories, we then examine a wide range of laser pulse shapes and polarizations. We find that counter-propagating, linearly polarized beams, with either aligned or crossed orientation, are likely to initiate a pair avalanche at intensities of approximately 10^{24} Watts/sq cm per beam. The same result is found by modelling one of the beams as a wave reflected at the surface of an overdense solid.

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