ORCID
- King, B.: 0000-0003-4489-8468
Abstract
Upcoming and planned experiments combining increasingly intense lasers and energetic particle beams will access new regimes of nonlinear, relativistic, quantum effects. This improved experimental capability has driven substantial progress in QED in intense background fields. We review here the advances made during the last decade, with a focus on theory and phenomenology. As ever higher intensities are reached, it becomes necessary to consider processes at higher orders in both the number of scattered particles and the number of loops, and to account for non-perturbative physics (e.g. the Schwinger effect), with extreme intensities requiring resummation of the loop expansion. In addition to increased intensity, experiments will reach higher accuracy, and these improvements are being matched by developments in theory such as in approximation frameworks, the description of finite-size effects, and the range of physical phenomena analysed. Topics on which there has been substantial progress include: radiation reaction, spin and polarisation, nonlinear quantum vacuum effects and connections to other fields including physics beyond the Standard Model.
DOI
10.1016/j.physrep.2023.01.003
Publication Date
2023-02-27
Publication Title
Physics Reports
Volume
1010
ISSN
0370-1573
Embargo Period
2023-04-18
Organisational Unit
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
First Page
1
Last Page
138
Recommended Citation
Fedotov, A., Ilderton, A., Karbstein, F., King, B., Seipt, D., Taya, H., & Torgrimsson, G. (2023) 'Advances in QED with intense background fields', Physics Reports, 1010, pp. 1-138. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.01.003
