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Soft-Gluon Production Due to a Gluon Loop in a Constant Chromo-Electric Background Field

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We obtain an exact result for the soft gluon production and its p_T distribution due to a gluon loop in a constant chromo-electric background field E^a with arbitrary color. Unlike Schwinger's result for e^+e^- pair production in QED which depends only on one gauge invariant quantity, the Electric field E, we find that the p_T distribution of the gluons depend on two gauge invariant quantities, E^aE^a and [d_{abc}E^aE^bE^c]^2.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0504070,
  title  = {Soft-Gluon Production Due to a Gluon Loop in a Constant Chromo-Electric Background Field},
  author = {Gouranga C. Nayak and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0504070},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages latex, Final Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D