Prospect of Studying Nonperturbative QED with Beam-Beam Collisions

Area of Science:

• High-energy physics
• Quantum electrodynamics
• Plasma physics

Background:

• Probing the nonperturbative regime of quantum electrodynamics (QED) is crucial for understanding fundamental physics.
• Existing methods face limitations in achieving the necessary field strengths.

Purpose of the Study:

• To demonstrate the experimental feasibility of accessing the fully nonperturbative regime of QED.
• To explore the potential of high-intensity particle colliders for novel physics research.

Main Methods:

• Utilizing a 100 GeV-class particle collider with tightly compressed and focused electron beams.
• Mitigating beamstrahlung radiation losses through beam manipulation.
• Employing three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations to validate the approach.

Main Results:

• Experimental feasibility of probing nonperturbative QED demonstrated.
• Extreme electromagnetic fields achievable by mitigating radiation losses.
• Simulation results confirm the viability of the proposed experimental setup.

Conclusions:

• The proposed experimental approach can establish a new research field in strong-field QED.
• This work may stimulate the development of new theoretical methodologies for unexplored QED regimes.