Schwinger limit attainability with extreme power lasers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Bulanov, Stepan S ^a   Esirkepov, Timur Zh ^b,c,d   Thomas, Alexander G R ^a   Koga, James K ^b   Bulanov, Sergei V ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b KANSAI PHOTON SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; COLLIDING LASER PULSE; COLLIDING PULSE; CRITICAL FIELDS; ELECTRON-POSITRON PAIRS; HIGH INTENSITY; IN-VACUUM; LINEAR ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; LINEARLY POLARIZED; PARTICLE MOTIONS; POWER LASERS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; SCHWINGER LIMITS; VACUUM BREAKDOWN;

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRONS; POSITRONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RADIATION EFFECTS; VACUUM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 78649391481     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.220407     Document Type: Article

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