Pair creation and plasma oscillations
Abstract
We describe aspects of particle creation in strong fields using a quantum kinetic equation with a relaxation-time approximation to the collision term. The strong electric background field is determined by solving Maxwell's equation in tandem with the Vlasov equation. Plasma oscillations appear as a result of feedback between the background field and the field generated by the particles produced. The plasma frequency depends on the strength of the initial background field and the collision frequency, and is sensitive to the necessary momentum-dependence of dressed-parton masses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0012039,
title = {Pair creation and plasma oscillations},
author = {A. V. Prozorkevich and D. V. Vinnik and S. M. Schmidt and M. B. Hecht and C. D. Roberts},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0012039},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, revteX, epsfig.sty, 5 figures; Proceedings of 'Quark Matter in Astro- and Particlephysics', a workshop at the University of Rostock, Germany, November 27 - 29, 2000. Eds. D. Blaschke, G. Burau, S.M. Schmidt