Electron-positron bremsstrahlung and pair creation in very high magnetic fields

Abstract

Cross-sections for Rutherford scattering, Coulomb bremsstrahlung and pair creation, have been calculated at very high magnetic fields in order to investigate the photo-production of protons at the polar caps of pulsars whose spin is antiparallel with the polar magnetic flux density. The Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect at very high magnetic fields is included in a simple electron Green function.

10 pages; to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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• Nuclear physics of reverse electron flow at pulsar polar caps

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