Dynamics of particle production by strong electric fields in non-Abelian plasmas

Journal Article · Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.054026· OSTI ID:21409858

Dawson, John F ^[1]; Mihaila, Bogdan ^[2]; Cooper, Fred ^[3]

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1. Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824 (United States)
2. Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
3. National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230 (United States)

We develop methods for computing the dynamics of fermion pair production by strong color electric fields including backreaction using the semiclassical Boltzmann-Vlasov (B-V) equation. We implement the Schwinger pair production by inserting a source term in the B-V equation which includes Pauli-Blocking effects. We present numerical results for a model with SU(2) symmetries in (1+1) Cartesian dimensions.

• OSTI ID: 21409858
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.054026; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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COLOR MODEL
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ELECTRIC FIELDS
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FERMIONS
PAIR PRODUCTION
PLASMA
SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION
SU-2 GROUPS
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CALCULATION METHODS
COMPOSITE MODELS
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
INTERACTIONS
LIE GROUPS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
QUARK MODEL
SIMULATION
SU GROUPS
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