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In addition to the study of radiation-reaction (which has been extensively described in the first two parts of this work), one of the main interest of the next generation of PW lasers [1, 2] will be the study of pair production by nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process. One of the possible configurations to trigger pair creation is that of two counter-propagating plane-waves (studied in the previous Chap. 8).
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Outside of strong fields, it should be noted that it is currently possible to produce fields with values of l as large as 10000 [6].
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Niel, F. (2021). Soft Pair Showers in the Collision of Gamma Rays with Laguerre-Gauss Beams. In: Classical and Quantum Description of Plasma and Radiation in Strong Fields. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73547-0_10
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