ABSTRACT

This chapter summarizes the achievements of the subject of nuclear and particle physics induced by ultraintense lasers. It also summarizes particle production, photonuclear reactions, nuclear fission, and nuclear medicine with very intense laser beams. The chapter reviews possible new nuclear processes using ultraintense lasers. It considers a double laser beam configuration, which can be of considerable interest in new area, because it allows for the possible enhancement of several types of nuclear reactions. Nuclear fission induced by ultraintense laser matter interaction was suggested and detected experimentally. Experimental work on isomer nuclear physics in ultraintense laser fields has already been accessed. Vacuum is one of the most exciting concepts in contemporary physics. quantum electrodynamics (QED) vacuum is a virtual plasma medium, where the nonlinear effects are due to the existence of virtual electron–positron pairs, excited by intense fields. The low-energy QED covers the domain of the so-called quantum optics.