| title: | Boiling the Vacuum with an X-ray FEL |
| format: | conference procceeding |
| conference: | APS April Meeting |
| year: | 2000 |
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| abstract: | We discuss the possibility of producing an electromagnetic field on the order of the Schwinger critical field by focusing the X-ray beam produced by the X-ray free-electron laser, LCLS, under development by a SLAC-ANL-BNL-LANL-UCLA collaboration. We also discuss an experiment which would use this very large field to test QED through the production of electron-positron pairs in vacuum, with no real particles being present in the initial state. |
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