Particle production from axial fields
Author(s) -
Antonio L. Maroto
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
physical review. d. particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/physical review. d. particles and fields
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-4918
pISSN - 0556-2821
DOI - 10.1103/physrevd.59.063501
Subject(s) - electric field , physics , production (economics) , quantum electrodynamics , vector field , point (geometry) , field (mathematics) , pseudovector , fermion , constant (computer programming) , particle (ecology) , action (physics) , pair production , classical mechanics , particle physics , mechanics , quantum mechanics , computer science , mathematics , geometry , pure mathematics , biology , programming language , economics , macroeconomics , meson , ecology
We study the production of massive fermions in arbitrary vector andaxial-vector classical backgrounds using effective action techniques. Aperturbative calculation shows the different features of each field and inparticular it is seen that pure temporal axial fields can produce particleswhereas it is not possible for a pure vector background. We also analyze from anon-perturbative point of view a particular configuration with constantelectric and axial fields and show that the presence of the axial backgroundinhibits the production from the electric field.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, RevTeX; minor corrections, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
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