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Magnetic focusing in atomic, nuclear and hadronic processes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-14 v1

Abstract

Processes with oppositely charged spinor particles in initial and/or final states in homogeneous magnetic field B are subject to focusing effects in their relative motion, which yield the amplifying factors in probabilities growing as eBeB. In addition the increasing energy of some Landau levels influences the phase space. As a result some processes in the proper spin states can be enlarged as eBκ2\sim \frac{eB}{\kappa^2}, where κ2\kappa^2 is the characteristic 2d phase space factor available without magnetic field. Several examples, including neutron β\beta decay, positronium decay and e+ee^+e^- pair production, are quantitatively considered.

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@article{arxiv.1308.5553,
  title  = {Magnetic focusing in atomic, nuclear and hadronic processes},
  author = {Yu. A. Simonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5553},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 pages

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