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 ...

Led by researcher Oliver Pike, the team has devised a machine called the "photon-photon collider" which could hold the answer. The collider uses existing technologies and requires two key steps.

Photon–photon collisions in the collider produce electron–positron pairs, and the positrons are accelerated by a plasma electric field created by the laser. This results in a positron beam.

Moreover, the very high speed at which lead nuclei travel in the LHC (corresponding to 99.999993% of the speed of light) causes the electromagnetic field lines to be squashed into a thin pancake ...

In its quest for these particles, which have a magnetic charge and are predicted by several theories that extend the Standard Model, the MoEDAL collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2025.240250, discusses on-chip multi-channel near-far field terahertz vortices with parity breaking and active modulation.

Just Add Gold. The photon collider would convert light directly into matter by using an extremely powerful high intensity laser to fire electrons at almost the speed of light into a slab of gold.