Schwinger mechanism revisited
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-02-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In this article, we review recent theoretical works on the Schwingermechanism of particle production in external electrical fields. Although the non-perturbative Schwinger mechanism is at the center of this discussion, many of the approaches that we discuss can cope with general time and space dependent fields, and therefore also capture the perturbative contributions to particle production.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.05451,
title = {Schwinger mechanism revisited},
author = {Francois Gelis and Naoto Tanji},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05451},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Review for Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 76 pages, 36 figures