Original authors of paper: X. Ribeyre, E. d'Humières, O. Jansen, S. Jequier, V. T. Tikhonchuk, and M. Lobet \
Link to paper: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.013201
Citation: Ribeyre et al, Phys. Rev. E 93, 013201 (2016)
Reproduced by: Óscar Amaro
Reproducing figures 1 and 2.
Abstract: Direct production of electron-positron pairs in two-photon collisions, the Breit-Wheeler process, is one of the basic processes in the universe. However, it has never been directly observed in the laboratory because of the absence of the intense γ-ray sources. Laser-induced synchrotron sources emission may open a way to observe this process. The feasibility of an experimental setup using a MeV photon source is studied in this paper. We compare several γ-ray sources and estimate the expected number of electron-positron pairs and competing processes by using numerical simulations including quantum electrodynamic effects.