Modelling gamma-ray photon emission and pair production in high-intensity laser-matter interactions

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2013.12.007MaRDI QIDQ348784zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. P. Ridgers, J. G. Kirk, Roland Duclous, T. G. Blackburn, C. S. Brady, Katherine Bennett, T. D. Arber, A. R. Bell

Publication date 5 December 2016

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5551

zbMATH Keywords

lasersquantum electrodynamicsplasmas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10)

Abstract: In high-intensity (> 10^21W/cm^2) laser-matter interactions gamma-ray photon emission by the electrons can strongly affect the electron's dynamics and copious numbers of electron-positron pairs can be produced by the emitted photons. We show how these processes can be included in simulations by coupling a Monte-Carlo algorithm describing the emission to a particle-in-cell code. The Monte-Carlo algorithm includes quantum corrections to the photon emission, which we show must be included if the pair production rate is to be correctly determined. The accuracy, convergence and energy conservation properties of the Monte-Carlo algorithm are analysed in simple test problems.

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