%0 Generic
%A Müller, Sarah Judith
%C Heidelberg
%D 2013
%F heidok:15990
%R 10.11588/heidok.00015990
%T Electroweak Processes in Laser-Boosted Lepton Collisions
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15990/
%X In this thesis, electroweak processes in relativistic lepton-antilepton collisions  taking place inside strong laser fields are studied. The energy of the  pre-accelerated particles can be vastly enhanced by their interaction with  the intense laser field in such a scenario. The main effort of the investigations  presented in this work lies in the examination of the associated  production of Higgs and Z^0 bosons. Since laser experiments most commonly  employ lasers of either circular or linear polarization, the total cross section  of the reaction as well as the energy distribution of the produced Higgs  boson are discussed in detail for both of these polarizations. The findings  are related to feld-free collisions of comparable collision energies. Special  attention is paid to the linear polarization case since it is more appealing  in view of an experimental implementation. The required laser parameters  for such an implementation and the experimental challenges that need to  be overcome are specified. As another example for a laser-boosted reaction,  the production of muon-antimuon pairs in electron-positron collisions  taking place in a laser field is studied. This process can in principle be  experimentally realized using present-day technology and thus might serve  as a proof-of-principle experiment for the concepts underlying this work.