6–11 Jul 2025
PALAIS DU PHARO, Marseille, France
Europe/Paris timezone

LUXE: a high-precision experiment to study non-perturbative QED in electron-laser and photon-laser collisions

8 Jul 2025, 09:50
20m
PALAIS DU PHARO, Marseille, France

PALAIS DU PHARO, Marseille, France

Parallel T06 - Top and Electroweak Physics T06

Speaker

Yan Benhammou (Tel Aviv University)

Description

The Laser Und XFEL Experiment (LUXE), in planning at DESY Hamburg, is intended to study quantum electrodynamics (QED) in strong electromagnetic fields, and in particular the transition from perturbative to non-perturbative. In the non-perturbative regime, electron-positron pairs tunnel out of the vacuum in a manner akin to the Schwinger process. The experiment will make precision measurements of the photon and positron rates in collisions between a high-intensity laser pulse and the 16.5 GeV electron beam of the European XFEL, or the high-energy secondary photons it produces. This talk will provide an overview and update on the work of the LUXE collaboration, as the experiment moves towards implementation.

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