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Pair Production by a Constant External Field in Noncommutative QED

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-07 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this paper we study QED on the noncommutative space in the constant electro-magnetic field background. Using the explicit solutions of the noncommutative version of Dirac equation in such background, we show that there are well-defined in and out -going asymptotic states and also there is a causal Green's function. We calculate the pair production rate in this case. We show that at tree level noncommutativity will not change the pair production and the threshold electric field. We also calculate the pair production rate considering the first loop corrections. In this case we show that the threshold electric field is decreased by the noncommutativity effects.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0009037,
  title  = {Pair Production by a Constant External Field in Noncommutative QED},
  author = {N. Chair and M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0009037},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages, no figures, v3: minor changes with respect to v2, the version to appear in PLB