ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Experimental signatures of quantum electrodynamics in the strong field regime
Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) is the theory that unifies electromagnetism and quantum mechanics to describe how light and matter interact. Considered as one of the most accurately tested theories, it led Richard Feynman to call it “the jewel of physics”. Yet, in the strong-field (SF) regime, when the light fields are ultra-intense, this theory is only treated perturbatively and the non-perturbative regime of SF-QED remains a terra incognita as even no theory exists to predict the behaviour of nature. The advent of multi-PW laser infrastructures now makes the SF-QED regime within experimental reach when considering the collision of relativistic electrons with such light pulses focused above…
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