Perturbative methods for assisted nonperturbative pair production
arXiv:1812.04607 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.096002
Abstract
In the dynamically assisted Schwinger mechanism, the pair production probability is significantly enhanced by including a weak, rapidly varying field in addition to a strong, slowly varying field. In a previous paper we showed that several features of dynamical assistance can be understood by a perturbative treatment of the weak field. Here we show how to calculate the prefactors of the higher-orders terms, which is important because the dominant contribution can come from higher orders. We give a new and independent derivation of the momentum spectrum using the worldline formalism, and extend our WKB approach to calculate the amplitude to higher orders. We show that these methods are also applicable to doubly assisted pair production.
Version 2: Results unchanged, misprints corrected, new appendix, matches PRD version. 24 pages, 8 figures
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