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Semiclassical treatment of pair creation in de Sitter space

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-18 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study a massive scalar field theory in de Sitter space. Using worldline instanton approach, we calculate probability of pair production in weak-field limit. In addition to exponential factor we derive pre-exponential factor. Within this approach the vanishing probability for odd-dimensional de Sitter space gets a clear geometrical interpretation. We find leading contribution to imaginary part of two point correlator in ϕ3\phi^3-theory.

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@article{arxiv.1312.2429,
  title  = {Semiclassical treatment of pair creation in de Sitter space},
  author = {Sergey Guts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2429},
  year   = {2015}
}