Note on Schwinger mechanism and a non-Abelian instability in a non-Abelian plasma

Journal Article · Wed Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.82.125005· OSTI ID:21503745

Nair, V P; Yelnikov, Alexandr ^[1]

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1. Physics Department, City College of the CUNY, New York, New York 10031 (United States)

We point out that there is a non-Abelian instability for a non-Abelian plasma which does not allow both for a net nonzero color charge and the existence of field configurations which are coherent over a volume v whose size is determined by the chemical potential. The basic process which leads to this result is the Schwinger decay of chromoelectric fields, for the case where the field arises from commutators of constant potentials, rather than as the curl of spacetime dependent potentials. The case where instability is obtained can be expressed in terms of fields (with constant potentials) as F{sup a{mu}{nu}F}{sub {mu}{nu}}{sup a}<0, A{sup a{mu}A}{sub {mu}}{sup a}<0.

• OSTI ID: 21503745
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 82, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.125005; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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