Photon polarization effects in polarized electron–positron pair production in a strong laser field

Ya-Nan Dai; Bai-Fei Shen; Jian-Xing Li; Rashid Shaisultanov; Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan; Christoph H. Keitel; Yue-Yue Chen

doi:10.1063/5.0063633

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