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Calculation and Analysis of the Vacuum Polarization Signal in a Three-Beam Setup

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We report the development of an efficient method for calculating the number and characteristics of photons emitted by a vacuum polarized by overlapping focused laser pulses. The dependence of the signal on the focusing and polarization of pulses is studied and optimized, and the possibility of its detection on the XCELS multipetawatt facility is substantiated.

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The authors are grateful to I.Yu. Kostyukov and E.N. Nerush for discussions.

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The work was supported by a research program of the National Center of Physics and Mathematics and by National Research Nuclear University MEPhI under the Priority 2030 Program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

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Berezin, A.V., Fedotov, A.M. Calculation and Analysis of the Vacuum Polarization Signal in a Three-Beam Setup. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 50 (Suppl 6), S641–S651 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335623180033

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