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Persistent URL	http://purl.org/net/epubs/work/51873
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Record Id	51873
Title	A proposal for testing subcritical vacuum pair production with power lasers
Contributors	G Gregori (Oxford U.), DB Blaschke (Wroclaw U.), R Pattathil (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), H Chen (LLNL), RJ Clarke (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), T Huffman (Oxford U.), CD Murphy (Oxford U.), AV Prozorkevich (Saratov State U., Russia), CD Roberts (ANL), G Ropke (Rostock U.), SM Schmidt (Dortmund U.), SA Smolyansky (Saratov State U., Russia), S Wilks (LLNL), R Bingham (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
Abstract	We present a proposal for testing the prediction of non-equilibrium field theory below the Schwinger limit. The proposed experiments should be able to detect a measurable number of gamma rays resulting from the annihilation of pairs in the focal spot of two opposing high-intensity laser beams. We discuss the dependence of the expected number of gamma rays with the laser parameters and compare with the estimated background level of gamma hits for realistic laser conditions.
Organisation	CLF , STFC , PPD-CfCP
Keywords	Quantum electrodynamics , Non-pertubative limit , Pair production , High-intensity lasers
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Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Journal Article	HEDP 6, no. 2 (2009): 166-170.	doi:10.1016/j.hedp.2009.11.001		2009