Vacuum reconstruction in strong electric and gravitational fields

Journal Article · Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982 · Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

OSTI ID:6257772

Voskresenskii, D N; Senatorov, A V

The phenomenon of reconstruction of the electron-positron vacuum in strong electric and gravitational fields is investigated. The quasiclassical electron wave functions are found. The possibility that the vacuum is unstable against electron-positron pair production even for a weakly charged star providing its radius R is sufficiently close to the radius r/sub h/(< or =R) of the event horizon is demonstrated in the quasiclassical approximation. It is shown that the positrons escape to infinity when the star charge Z>Z/sub c/, but remain localized near the surface of the star when ZZ/sub c/ is a generalization of the well known Reissner-Nordstrom metric. The possible application of the obtained results in the investigation of the zero-charge problem is discussed.

• Research Organization: Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute
• OSTI ID: 6257772
• Journal Information: Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Vol. 36:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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VACUUM POLARIZATION
PAIR PRODUCTION
THOMAS-FERMI MODEL
WAVE FUNCTIONS
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