Electron-positron pair production by photons in nonuniform strong fields

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Nitta, H ^a   Khokonov, M Kh ^b   Nagata, Y ^a   Onuki, S ^a  

^a TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KABARDINO BALKARIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; PROBABILITY;

CHANNELING; ELECTRON POSITRON PAIR PRODUCTION; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED); UNIFORM-FIELD APPROXIMATION (UFA);

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 19744382157     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.180407     Document Type: Article

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