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Pauli blocking effects on pair creation in strong electric field

Plasma Physics 2023-07-18 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

The process of electron-positron pair creation and oscillation in uniform electric field is studied, taking into account Pauli exclusion principle. Generally, we find that pair creation is suppressed, hence coherent oscillations occur on longer time scales. Considering pair creation in already existing electron-positron plasma we find that the dynamics depends on pair distribution function. We considered Fermi-Dirac distribution of pairs and found that for small temperatures pair creation is suppressed, while for small chemical potentials it increases: heating leads to enhancement of pair creation.

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@article{arxiv.2306.12956,
  title  = {Pauli blocking effects on pair creation in strong electric field},
  author = {Mikalai Prakapenia and Gregory Vereshchagin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.12956},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted for publication in Physical Review D