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http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png LUXE: A new experiment to study non-perturbative QED in electron-laser and photon-laser collisions

Yap, Y. C. (Corresponding author)DESY*

2023
SISSA Trieste

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.22323/1.414.0869  doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2022-05271

Report No.: DESY-22-166

Abstract: The LUXE experiment (Laser Und XFEL Experiment) is an experiment in planning at DESY Hamburg using the electron beam of the European XFEL. LUXE is intended to study collisions between a high-intensity optical laser pulse and 16.5 GeV electrons, as well as collisions between the laser pulse and high-energy secondary photons. This will elucidate quantum electrodynamics (QED) at the strong-field frontier, where the electromagnetic field of the laser is above the Schwinger limit. In this regime, QED is non-perturbative. This manifests itself in the creation of physical electron-positron pairs from the QED vacuum, similar to Hawking radiation from black holes. LUXE intends to measure the positron production rate in an unprecedented laser intensity regime. An overview of the LUXE experimental setup and its challenges and progress is given in this article, along with a discussion of the expected physics reach in the context of testing QED in the non-perturbative regime.

Keyword(s): quantum electrodynamics, nonperturbative ; laser, yield ; positron, production ; photon, secondary ; radiation, Hawking ; electron, beam ; electromagnetic field, laser ; strong field ; optical ; GeV ; black hole ; electron positron

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Technol. zukünft. Teilchenph. Experim. (FTX)

Research Program(s):

1. 611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF4-611) (POF4-611)

Experiment(s):

1. Laser Und XFEL Experiment

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