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View SchemaMultiple electromagnetic electron positron pair production in relativistic heavy ion collisions
| Authors | Adrian Alscher, Kai Hencken, Dirk Trautmann, Gerhard Baur |
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| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/9606011 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9606011 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.396 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. A55 (1997) 396-401 |
Abstract
We calculate the cross sections for the production of one and more electron-positron pairs due to the strong electromagnetic fields in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Using the generating functional of fermions in an external field we derive the N-pair amplitude. Neglecting the antisymmetrisation in the final state we find that the total probability to produce N pairs is a Poisson distribution. We calculate total cross sections for the production of one pair in lowest order and also include higher-order corrections from the Poisson distribution up to third order. Furthermore we calculate cross sections for the production of up to five pairs including corrections from the Poisson distribution.
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