Pair production via crossed lasers

Physical Review D

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Fried, H M ^a   Gabellini, Y ^b   McKellar, B H J ^c   Avan, J ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT NON LINÉAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POSITRON; QUANTUM THEORY; VACUUM;

EID: 0034890673     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.125001     Document Type: Article

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12. One assumes here that a continued increase of laser intensity, roughly one or two orders of magnitude per year, is possible. Professor A. Klein (University of Melbourne) has, in a private communication, kindly pointed out certain experimental difficulties that could conceivably limit the (F/F0) ratio.