Speaker
Description
Intense laser-matter interactions offer not only a novel experimental testing ground for fundamental physics, but also an ideal setting for exploring lightfront field theory.
I will give an overview of the application of lightfront field theory to laser-matter interactions in the relativistic and quantum regime. Topics will include non-perturbative pair production and the physical consequences of lightfront zero modes, non-perturbative methods based on superintegrable lightfront dynamics, Lorentz-invariance violating theories, and higher order processes such as electromagnetic cascades.
I will also present recent experimental results on laser-particle scattering and outline future experimental plans at the Extreme Light Infrastructure facility.
References
- T. Heinzl and A. Ilderton, Phys.Rev.Lett. 118 (2017) no.11, 113202
- A. Ilderton, Phys.Rev. D 94 (2016) no.4, 045019
- A. Ilderton, G. Torgrimsson and J. Wårdh, Phys.Rev. D 92 (2015) no.6, 065001
