A new ‘photon–photon collider’, which may enable elusive Breit–Wheeler pair production in an optics laboratory setting, is predicted. Using this concept, it is potentially possible to produce 105 Breit–Wheeler electron–positron pairs by firing a gamma-ray beam into a high-temperature radiation field of a laser-heated hohlraum cavity.
- O. J. Pike
- F. Mackenroth
- S. J. Rose