Correction of intense laser-plasma interactions by QED vacuum polarization in collision of laser beams

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ac70b3

Abstract The influence of vacuum polarization effects on the interactions of multiple ultra-intense lasers with plasmas is discussed. The nonlinear paraxial monochromatic model of the interactions has been improved by considering the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian density of two laser processes. Comparing the corrections of vacuum polarization effects in the collision of laser beams with one generated by a single intense laser, we find that the former has a higher order of magnitude correction. The laser collision also produces variations in the propagation direction and polarization direction of the lasers propagating in the plasma. In addition, the strong-field quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects can be enhanced by increasing the laser intensity or frequency difference, or by adjusting the incident angles of the two laser beams.

Keywords: vacuum-polarization effects extreme intensity laser laser-plasma interactions

Received: 14 February 2022
Revised: 17 April 2022
Accepted manuscript online: 18 May 2022

PACS:	52.20.-j	(Elementary processes in plasmas)
	52.38.-r	(Laser-plasma interactions)
	12.20.Ds	(Specific calculations)
	42.50.Xa	(Optical tests of quantum theory)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11805117) and the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Grant No. S30105).

Corresponding Authors: Wen-Bo Chen
E-mail: d_cwb@shu.edu.cn

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Wen-Bo Chen(陈文博) and Zhi-Gang Bu(步志刚) Correction of intense laser-plasma interactions by QED vacuum polarization in collision of laser beams 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 025204

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