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Scaling the Yield of Laser-Driven Electron-Positron Jets to Laboratory Astrophysical Applications

Scaling the Yield of Laser-Driven Electron-Positron Jets to Laboratory Astrophysical Applications

We report new experimental results obtained on three different laser facilities that show directed laser-driven relativistic electron-positron jets with up to 30 times larger yields than previously obtained and a quadratic (∼E_{L}^{2}) dependence of the positron yield on the laser energy. This favorable scaling stems from a combination of higher …