Informal EMMI Workshop

The Physics of Supercritical Electromagnetic Fields

Friday, 18^th July 2008 at GSI Darmstadt (Theory Seminar Room)

Welcome (9:00)

Horst Stöcker, GSI-Darmstadt

Introduction (9:05 – 10:00)

Walter Greiner, FIAS & University of Frankfurt

Supercritical Fields:  Past Lessons and Future Challenges

Thomas Stöhlker, GSI and University of Heidelberg

Strong Field Atomic Physics at GSI/FAIR: Status and Outlook

Slow-Collisions (10:00 – 11:00)

Joachim Reinhard, University of Frankfurt

Dynamical versus Spontaneous Positrons in Za > 1 Systems

Vladimir Shabaev, State-University of St. Petersburg

Theory of Bound State QED at Strong Fields

Slow-Collisions (11:30 – 12:30)

Stephan Fritzsche, FIAS  & University of Heidelberg

Quasi-Molecular Radiation in Heavy-Ion Collisions:
Two-Center Description

Reinhold Schuch, University of Stockholm

Interference Effects in Quasi-Molecular Radiation

Slow-Collisions (14:00 – 15:00)

Sophie Heinz, GSI-Darmstadt

Search for Long Nuclear Interaction Times in ²³⁸U + ²³⁸U Collisions

Andrey Surzhykov, University of Heidelberg

Recombination from the Negative Continuum

Relativistic Collisions (15:00 – 16:00)

Valery Serbo, Novosibirsk State University  

Strong-Field Effects for the Production of Lepton Pairs and Photons
in Collisions of Relativistic Nuclei

Alexander Voitkiv, MPIK Heidelberg

Electron Transitions in High-Energy Heavy Ion-Atom Collisions

Intense Laser Fields (16:30 – 17:30)

Karen Zaven Hatsagortsyan, MPIK Heidelberg

Laser Driven Recollision and QED Effects

Ralf Schützhold, University of Duisburg-Essen

Unruh Effect and Schwinger Mechanism in Strong Laser