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Momentum spectrum of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in spacetime fields
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany; Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5442-8297
2024 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 110, no 7, article id 076017Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We show how to use a worldline-instanton formalism to calculate, to leading order in the weak-field expansion, the momentum spectrum of nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in fields that depend on time and one spatial coordinate. We find a nontrivial dependence on the width, lambda, of the photon wave packet, and the existence of a critical point lambda(c). For lambda < lambda(c) and a field with one peak, the spectrum has one peak where the electron and positron have the same energy. For lambda > lambda(c) c this splits into two peaks. We calculate a high-energy (Omega >> 1 ) expansion, which to leading order agrees with the results obtained by replacing the spacetime field with a plane wave and using the well-known Volkov solutions. We also calculate an expansion for Omega similar to a(0) >> 1 , where the field is strong enough to significantly bend the trajectories of the fermions despite Omega >> 1.

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American Physical Society, 2024. Vol. 110, no 7, article id 076017
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Nonperturbative effects in field theory, Particle production, Path integrals, Quantum electrodynamics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-232515DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.076017ISI: 001337842900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85206665957OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-232515DiVA, id: diva2:1917471
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