Photon-photon scattering in collisions of laser pulses

King, B.; Keitel, Christoph H.

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/14/10/103002

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Photon-photon scattering in collisions of laser pulses

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Keitel, Christoph H.
Division Prof. Dr. Christoph H. Keitel, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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King, B., & Keitel, C. H. (2012). Photon-photon scattering in collisions of laser pulses. New Journal of Physics, 14(10): 103002, pp. 1-22. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/14/10/103002.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000E-7587-2

Abstract

A scenario for measuring the predicted processes of vacuum elastic and
inelastic photon-photon scattering with modern lasers is investigated. Numbers
of measurable scattered photons are calculated for the collision of two,
Gaussian-focused, pulsed lasers. We show that a single 10PW optical laser beam
split into two counter-propagating pulses is sufficient for measuring the
elastic process. Moreover, when these pulses are sub-cycle, our results suggest
the inelastic process should be measurable too.