Published November 10, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

High Intensity Physics

  • 1. Department of Physics, Umeaa University, SE-901 87 Umeaa (Sweden)

Description

The capability to produce high field strengths, and thereby obtain a new means for doing fundamental physics, has over the last thirty years taken great leaps forward. Both superconducting cavities as well ultra-intense lasers can now reach field strengths of the order 50 MV/m (stationary) and 1012 V/m(peak value, time-dependent field), respectively. Here we will describe a collection of problems that catches the flavor of the nonlinear quantum vacuum and the possibility to use high field strengths as a low-energy probe of fundamental physics.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1188
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 301-314
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
2009 ICTP summer college on plasma physics; International symposium on cutting edge plasma physics
Dates
10-28 Aug 2009
Place
Trieste (Italy)

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(c) 2009 American Institute of Physics