%0 Journal Article
%T Prolific pair production with high-power lasers
%A Bell
%A A. R.
%A Kirk
%A John G.
%J High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
%D 2008
%I 
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.200403
%X Prolific electron-positron pair production is possible at laser intensities approaching 10^{24} W/cm^2 at a wavelength of 1 micron. An analysis of electron trajectories and interactions at the nodes (B=0) of two counter-propagating, circularly polarised laser beams shows that a cascade of gamma-rays and pairs develops. The geometry is generalised qualitatively to linear polarisation and laser beams incident on a solid target.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2107