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Highly Radiating Charged Particles in a Strong Electromagnetic Field

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-05-18 v4 Plasma Physics

Abstract

We consider highly radiating ultra-relativistic electrons in a strong external electromagnetic field. High intensity radiative losses and consequent e+ee^+e^--pair production, appearing in the frame of quantum electrodynamics, determine indirectly mass operator of electrons in the strong field. We calculate a leading term of the mass operator at asymptotically high energies of electrons in a strong constant field. We do not use any perturbation theory based on a low ratio of this mass operator to the electron mass mem_e, but only the original small parameter of quantum electrodynamics, the fine structure constant, α\alpha. The analogous %but less nontrivial result is obtained for the polarization operator for photon propagator. These results resolve at least partially a very long-lasted controversy originating from traditional and straightforward application of perturbative approaches for description of highly radiating ultra-relativistic charged particles in a very strong electromagnetic fields.

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@article{arxiv.2204.00483,
  title  = {Highly Radiating Charged Particles in a Strong Electromagnetic Field},
  author = {P. V. Sasorov and M. Jirka and S. V. Bulanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00483},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6 pages; several issues further clarified and explained

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