Pair production at the focus of two equal and oppositely directed laser beams: The effect of the pulse shape

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Di Piazza, Antonino ^a,b  

^a Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

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ARTICLE; CALCULATION; LASER; OPTICS; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84927714327     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.70.053013     Document Type: Article

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