Particle scattering and vacuum instability by exponential steps
arXiv:1709.06997 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.096020
Abstract
Particle scattering and vacuum instability in a constant inhomogeneous electric field of particular peak configuration that consists of two (exponentially increasing and exponentially decreasing) independent parts are studied. It presents a new kind of external field where exact solutions of the Dirac and Klein-Gordon equations can be found. We obtain and analyze in- and out-solutions of the Dirac and Klein-Gordon equations in this configuration. By their help we calculate probabilities of particle scattering and characteristics of the vacuum instability. In particular, we consider in details three configurations: a smooth peak, a sharp peak, and a strongly asymmetric peak configuration. We find asymptotic expressions for total mean numbers of created particles and for vacuum-to-vacuum transition probability. We discuss a new regularization of the Klein step by the sharp peak and compare this regularization with another one given by the Sauter potential.
35 pages, 2 figures. misprints corrected, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1511.02915, arXiv:1605.09072
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