Published March 1, 2010 | Version v1
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Dynamics of particle production by strong electric fields in non-Abelian plasmas

Creators

  • 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. Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  • 4. Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (United States)
  • 5. National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230 (United States)

Description

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.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.054026;
arXiv
arXiv:1002.3578v1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 054026-054026.10
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42003019
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BOLTZMANN-VLASOV EQUATION; COLOR MODEL; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS; FERMIONS; PAIR PRODUCTION; PLASMA; SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; SU-2 GROUPS
Descriptors DEC
APPROXIMATIONS; CALCULATION METHODS; COMPOSITE MODELS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; INTERACTIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; QUARK MODEL; SIMULATION; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS

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