Strong field monte carlo event generator
In order to understand strong field physics phenomena in nature we can simulate it with a purpose build monte carlo code, called IPstrong. This code has been developed over the past decade and can simulate non perturbative QED events in electron/laser beam collisions, and at the interaction point of charged bunch particle colliders, such as the LHC.
IPstrong is written in Fortran 2008, is parallelised and deals in macroparticles which are described at any time during an interaction, by their energy-momentum, position, species (i.e. electron,... photon, ...), weight (how many real particles it corresponds to. Outputs can be loaded into external programs, such as plotters, for additional processing.
With the aid of IPstrong simulations, the rate of positron production can be predicted and fitted to theoretical curves in order to experimentally measure the actual value of the Schwinger critical field (plot right).
