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Reformulating the instantons in a complex plane for tunneling or transmitting states, we calculate the pair-production rate of charged fermions in a spatially localized electric field, illustrated by the Sauter electric field E_0 sech^2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sang Pyo Kim , Don N. Page

The process of electron-positron pair production is investigated within the phase-space Wigner formalism. The similarities between atomic ionization and pair production for homogeneous, but time-dependent linearly polarized electric fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Christian Kohlfürst

Accelerating classical systems that couple to a fermion-antifermion pair at the microscopic level can radiate pairs of fermions and lose energy in the process. In this work, we derive the generalization of the Larmor formula for fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-05 Margarita Gavrilova , Mitrajyoti Ghosh , Yuval Grossman , Walter Tangarife , Tien-Hsueh Tsai

The process of pair creation by a photon in a strong magnetic field is investigated basing on the polarization operator in the field. The total probability of the process is found in a relatively simple form. The probability exhibits a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

A consistent nonperturbative approach (based on QFT) to neutral fermion creation (due to their magnetic moments) in strong inhomogeneous magnetic fields is considered. It is demonstrated that quantization in terms of neutral particles and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

We derive the pair-production probability in a constant electric field in Rindler coordinates in a quasi-classical approximation. Our result is different from the pair-production probability in an inertial frame (Schwinger formula). In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kirill Tuchin

We study electron-positron pair production by the combination of a strong, constant electric field and a thermal background. We show that this process is similar to dynamically assisted Schwinger pair production, where the strong field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-16 Greger Torgrimsson

We investigate the Schwinger pair creation process in the context of gravitational models with the back reaction of the electric field included in the geometry. The background is also an exact solution of type II superstring theory, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 Jorge G. Russo

Electron-positron pair production for inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields oscillating in space and time is investigated. By employing accurate numerical methods (Furry-picture quantization and quantum kinetic theory), final particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-23 Ivan A. Aleksandrov , Christian Kohlfürst

The production of electron-positron pairs in time-dependent electric fields (Schwinger mechanism) depends non-linearly on the applied field profile. Accordingly, the resulting momentum spectrum is extremely sensitive to small variations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Florian Hebenstreit

In the space-dependent gauge, each mode of the Klein-Gordon equation in a strong electric field takes the form of a time-independent Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a potential barrier. We propose that the single- and multi-instantons of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sang Pyo Kim , Don N. Page

We have shown the simultaneous generation of macro-scale fast flows and strong magnetic fields in the 2-temperature relativistic electron-ion plasmas of astrophysical objects due to Unified Reverse Dynamo/Dynamo mechanism. The resulting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 K. Kotorashvili , N. L. Shatashvili

We investigate the effect of pair creation on a shock structure. Particles, accelerated in the shock via the first order Fermi process, are supposed to cool by inverse Compton process on external soft photons, resulting in a cut-off power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. O. Petrucci , G. Henri , G. Pelletier

High-energy heavy-ion collisions generate extremely strong magnetic field which plays a key role in a number of novel quantum phenomena in quark-gluon plasma (QGP), such as the chiral magnetic effect (CME). However, due to the complexity in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-05 Li Yan , Xu-Guang Huang

Quantum electrodynamics predicts that in a strong electric field, electron-positron pairs are produced by the Schwinger process, which can be interpreted as quantum tunnelling through the Coulomb potential barrier. If magnetic monopoles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Arttu Rajantie

This manuscript is devoted to introduce a gauge theory of the Lorentz Group based on the ambiguity emerging in dealing with isometric diffeo-morphism-induced Lorentz transformations. The behaviors under local transformations of fermion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Nakia Carlevaro , Orchidea Maria Lecian , Giovanni Montani

We evaluate the effect of quantum electrodynamics on the correlations between Dirac field modes corresponding electron-positron pairs of opposite momenta generated by expansion of an asymptotically flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 L. N. Machado , H. A. S. Costa , I. G. da Paz , M. Sampaio , Jonas B. Araujo

We consider response function and spin evolution in spin-orbit coupled cold atomic gases in a synthetic gauge magnetic field influencing solely the orbital motion of atoms. We demonstrate that various regimes of spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-06 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

We report on an analytical and numerical study of the dynamics of a three-dimensional array of identical magnetic flux tubes in the reduced-magnetohydrodynamic description of the plasma. We propose that the long-time evolution of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Muni Zhou , Nuno F. Loureiro , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

We consider that no mean magnetic field exists during this epoch, but that there is a mean magnetic energy associated with large-scale magnetic inhomogeneities. We study the evolution of these inhomogeneities and their influence on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 E. Battaner , E. Florido , J. Jimenez-Vicente