On the design of experiments to study extreme field limits

Bulanov, Stepan S. and Chen, M. and Schroeder, C. B. and Esarey, E. and Leemans, W. P. and Bulanov, Sergei V. and Esirkepov, Timur Zh. and Kando, M. and Koga, James K. and Zhidkov, A. G. and Chen, Pengyu and Mur, V. D. and Narozhny, N. B. and Popov, V. S. and Thomas, Alexander George Roy and Korn, G. (2012) On the design of experiments to study extreme field limits. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1507 (1). pp. 825-830. ISSN 0094-243X

Abstract

We propose experiments on the collision of high intensity electromagnetic pulses with electron bunches and on the collision of multiple electromagnetic pulses for studying extreme field limits in the nonlinear interaction of electromagnetic waves. The effects of nonlinear QED will be revealed in these laser plasma experiments.