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Scalable Quantum Integrated Circuits on Superconducting Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Platform
Published on: August 2, 2019
From LUXE to future colliders: probing strong-field QED and beyond
1Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Strong-field quantum electrodynamics offers a unique window into nonperturbative phenomena such as nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production, in which electron-positron pairs are created from the vacuum in the presence of intense electromagnetic fields. The LUXE experiment at DESY is designed to probe this regime using collisions between a high-intensity laser and the 16.5 GeV electron beam of the European XFEL. Future accelerator infrastructures, such as linear colliders, could extend these studies to even higher intensity and energy scales. Additionally, high-energy photons produced in such interactions can be used in beam-dump experiments to search for new physics.
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