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SUBMITTER: Zhang B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6906303 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20191211 1
Electric force is presently the only means in laboratory to accelerate charged particles to high energies, corresponding acceleration processes are classical and continuous. Here we report on how to accelerate electrons and positrons to high energies using ultra intense lasers (UIL) through two quantum processes, nonlinear Compton scattering and nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. In the coherent photon dominated regime of these two processes, the former can effectively boost electrons/positrons an ...[more]