Trident Pair Production in Strong Laser Pulses
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2012-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
We make use of Volkov states of electron and positron for trident pair production. The
periodic plane wave case shows an in nite sum over photon number in the calculations
and leads to unphysical cross section. We calculate the trident pair production rate and
cross section in strong laser pulses, treating nonperturbatively in strong- field QED. We
then arrive at a fnite and physical results through shaping of those fields into laser pulses.
With the help of the optical theorem, we make the S-matrix not to diverge and precisely
identify the one-step and two-step processes
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Strong Laser Pulses