2 papers
hep-ph2018
Observing Thermal Schwinger Pair Production
Oliver Gould, Stuart Mangles, Arttu Rajantie +2
We study the possibility of observing Schwinger pair production enhanced by a thermal bath of photons. We consider the full range of temperatures and electric field intensities fro…
hep-th2018
Worldline sphaleron for thermal Schwinger pair production
Oliver Gould, Arttu Rajantie, Cheng Xie
With increasing temperatures, Schwinger pair production changes from a quantum tunnelling to a classical, thermal process, determined by a worldline sphaleron. We show this and cal…