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Soliton-antisoliton pair production in particle collisions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-08-22 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We propose general semiclassical method for computing the probability of soliton-antisoliton pair production in particle collisions. The method is illustrated by explicit numerical calculations in (1+1)-dimensional scalar field model. We find that the probability of the process is suppressed by an exponentially small factor which is almost constant at high energies.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0013,
  title  = {Soliton-antisoliton pair production in particle collisions},
  author = {S. V. Demidov and D. G. Levkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0013},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, journal version