Signatures of linear Breit-Wheeler pair production in polarized $\gamma\gamma$ collisions

Qian Zhao,1 Liang Tang,2 Feng Wan,1 Bo-Chao Liu,1 Ruo-Yu Liu,3 Rui-Zhi Yang,4 Jin-Qing Yu,5, ∗ Xue-Guang Ren,1 Zhong-Feng Xu,1 Yong-Tao Zhao,1 Yong-Sheng Huang,6, 7, † and Jian-Xing Li1, ‡ 1Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Quantum Information and Quantum Optoelectronic Devices, School of Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 2College of Physics and Hebei Key Laboratory of Photophysics Research and Application, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China 3School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 4CAS Key Labrotory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Department of Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China 5School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China 6School of Science, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, P.R. China 7Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China (Dated: November 30, 2021)