47 research outputs found
On the kinetic equation approach to pair production by time-dependent electric field
We investigate the quantum kinetic approach to pair production from vacuum by
time-dependent electric field. Equivalence between this approach and the more
familiar S-matrix approach is explicitly established for both scalar and
fermion cases. For the particular case of a constant electric field exact
solution for kinetic equations is provided and the accuracy of low-density
approximation is estimated.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Coupled fermion and boson production in a strong background mean-field
We derive quantum kinetic equations for fermion and boson production starting
from a phi^4 Lagrangian with minimal coupling to fermions. Decomposing the
scalar field into a mean-field part and fluctuations we obtain spontaneous pair
creation driven by a self-interacting strong background field. The produced
fermion and boson pairs are self-consistently coupled. Consequently back
reactions arise from fermion and boson currents determining the time dependent
self-interacting background mean-field. We explore the numerical solution in
flux tube geometry for the time evolution of the mean-field as well as for the
number- and energy densities for fermions and bosons. We find that after a
characteristic time all energy is converted from the background mean-field to
particle creation. Applying this general approach to the production of
``quarks'' and ``gluons'' a typical time scale for the collapse of the flux
tube is 1.5 fm/c.Comment: 9 pages, latex, epsfig, 7 figure
The kinetic description of vacuum particle creation in the oscillator representation
The oscillator representation is used for the non-perturbative description of
vacuum particle creation in a strong time-dependent electric field in the
framework of scalar QED. It is shown that the method can be more effective for
the derivation of the quantum kinetic equation (KE) in comparison with the
Bogoliubov method of time-dependent canonical transformations. This KE is used
for the investigation of vacuum creation in periodical linear and circular
polarized electric fields and also in the case of the presence of a constant
magnetic field, including the back reaction problem. In particular, these
examples are applied for a model illustration of some features of vacuum
creation of electron-positron plasma within the planned experiments on the
X-ray free electron lasers.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures, v2: a reference added; some changes in tex
Inertial mechanism: dynamical mass as a source of particle creation
A kinetic theory of vacuum particle creation under the action of an inertial
mechanism is constructed within a nonpertrubative dynamical approach. At the
semi-phenomenological level, the inertial mechanism corresponds to quantum
field theory with a time-dependent mass. At the microscopic level, such a
dependence may be caused by different reasons: The non-stationary Higgs
mechanism, the influence of a mean field or condensate, the presence of the
conformal multiplier in the scalar-tensor gravitation theory etc. In what
follows, a kinetic theory in the collisionless approximation is developed for
scalar, spinor and massive vector fields in the framework of the oscillator
representation, which is an effective tool for transition to the quasiparticle
description and for derivation of non-Markovian kinetic equations. Properties
of these equations and relevant observables (particle number and energy
densities, pressure) are studied. The developed theory is applied here to
describe the vacuum matter creation in conformal cosmological models and
discuss the problem of the observed number density of photons in the cosmic
microwave background radiation. As other example, the self-consistent evolution
of scalar fields with non-monotonic self-interaction potentials (the
W-potential and Witten - Di Vecchia - Veneziano model) is considered. In
particular, conditions for appearance of tachyonic modes and a problem of the
relevant definition of a vacuum state are considered.Comment: 51 pages, 18 figures, submitted to PEPAN (JINR, Dubna); v2: added
reference
On the kinetic equation approach to pair production by time-dependent electric field
We investigate the quantum kinetic approach to pair production from vacuum by
time-dependent electric field. Equivalence between this approach and the more
familiar S-matrix approach is explicitly established for both scalar and
fermion cases. For the particular case of a constant electric field exact
solution for kinetic equations is provided and the accuracy of low-density
approximation is estimated.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Momentum Spectra for Dynamically Assisted Schwinger Pair Production
Recently the dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism, i.e.,
electron-positron pair production from vacuum by a combination of laser pulses
with different time scales has been proposed. The corresponding results, which
suggest that the rate of produced pairs is significantly enhanced by dynamical
effects, are verified. Employing the framework of quantum kinetic theory
intrinsically enables us to additionally provide momentum space information on
the generated positron spectrum.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figure
Laser acceleration of ion beams
We consider methods of charged particle acceleration by means of
high-intensity lasers. As an application we discuss a laser booster for heavy
ion beams provided, e.g. by the Dubna nuclotron. Simple estimates show that a
cascade of crossed laser beams would be necessary to provide additional
acceleration to gold ions of the order of GeV/nucleon.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, Talk at the Helmholtz International Summer School
"Dense Matter in heavy Ion Collisions and Astrophysics", August 21 -
September 1, 2006, JINR Dubna, Russia; v2, misprints correcte