ELI-NP: Lorentz-boosted high-field QED

D. Habs
LMU Mnchen Fakultt f. Physik Max-Planck-Institut f. Quantenoptik

ELI-NP: Lorentz-Boost (I)

of high-field QED
e+e pair creation: a) only constant E-field: Re Lorentz invariant: f
2

e
2

exp
2m ;
4

eF

ES exp E ES m 2 e
1027 W/cm2

2f
exp exp
f

10 exponentially steep Keldish-like tunneling: 26 W/cm2

b) constant E-field +

10

90 29

5 10

high-energy g quantum with 4-momentum km or energy w:

Re e
Lorentz invariant:

exp

8 ES m 3E
2 12

exp

8 3

e2 k F

m3

exponentially steep:

(1024 W/cm2, w = 0.5 MeV) 10200

(1024 W/cm2, w = 100 MeV) 105 (41028 W/cm2, w = 0.5 MeV)

surprisingly very similar formula: 8/3 p ; for w = m same result like Schwinger + Lorentz boost

ELI-NP: Lorentz-Boost (II)

of high-field QED
By going from 0.5 MeV to 100 MeV g energy with the brilliant ELI-NP g beam facility, we Lorentz-boost equivalently the Laser field of the APOLLON intensity by a factor 410 4, going from 11024 W/cm2 to 41028 W/cm2 = 0.1 IS.
Advantage: The 100 MeV g beam and the 1024 W/cm2 APOLLON do not produce e+e cascades individually (even for less than perfect vacuum), but the combination of both does produce e+e cascades.

Good test of non-perturbative QED.

Similar effects for all high-field QED like radiation damping + brilliant electron beam. ELI-NP: enhancement of fundamental high-field QED by very brilliant, high-energy g/e beam facility.
N.B. Narozhnyi, Sov. Phys. JETP 27, 360 (1968); G.V. Dunne et al., Phys. Rev. D 80, 111301 (R), (2009); V.N. Baier et al., arXiv:0912.5250v1 (2009).