Vacuum Decay Time in Strong External Fields
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-03-12 v2 Nuclear Theory
Optics
Abstract
We consider dynamics of vacuum decay and particle production in the context of short pulse laser experiments. We identify and evaluate the invariant "materialization time," , the timescale for the conversion of an electromagnetic field energy into particles, and we compare to the laser related time scales.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.0874,
title = {Vacuum Decay Time in Strong External Fields},
author = {Lance Labun and Johann Rafelski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0874},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures; improved representation of eq. 12, improved figures, added references, improved introductory material, and corrected typos