Observing Thermal Schwinger Pair Production
(2019)
Journal Article
All Outputs (25)
Worldline sphaleron for thermal Schwinger pair production (2018)
Journal Article
With increasing temperatures, Schwinger pair production changes from a quantum tunneling to a classical, thermal process, determined by a worldline sphaleron. We show this and calculate the corresponding rate of pair production for both spinor and sc... Read More about Worldline sphaleron for thermal Schwinger pair production.
Magnetic monopole creation (2018)
Thesis
Elementary magnetic monopoles have never been experimentally observed but there are credible theoretical reasons to believe that they may nonetheless exist. This thesis gives partial answers to the questions: if magnetic monopoles do exist, can we cr... Read More about Magnetic monopole creation.
Magnetic monopole mass bounds from heavy ion collisions and neutron stars (2017)
Journal Article
Magnetic monopoles, if they exist, would be produced amply in strong magnetic fields and high temperatures via the thermal Schwinger process. Such circumstances arise in heavy-ion collisions and in neutron stars, both of which imply lower bounds on t... Read More about Magnetic monopole mass bounds from heavy ion collisions and neutron stars.
Thermal Schwinger pair production at arbitrary coupling (2017)
Journal Article
We calculate the rate of thermal Schwinger pair production at arbitrary coupling in weak external fields. Our calculations are valid independently of many properties of the charged particles produced, in particular their spin and whether they are ele... Read More about Thermal Schwinger pair production at arbitrary coupling.