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Pair production as a probe for the dynamics of nuclear fission and decay
Thomas Settlemyre, Hua Zheng, Aldo Bonasera
Electron-positron pairs can be produced via the Schwinger mechanism in the presence of strong electric fields. In particular, the fields involved in decay and nuclear fission a…
Dynamical Pair Production at Sub-Barrier Energies for Light Nuclei
T. Settlemyre, H. Zheng, A. Bonasera
In the collision of two heavy ions, the strong repulsion coming from the Coulomb field is enough to produce pair(s) from vacuum fluctuations. The energy is provided by the…
Coulomb field correction due to virtual production in heavy ion collisions
Thomas Settlemyre, Aldo Bonasera, Hua Zheng
The correction to the Coulomb energy due to virtual production of pairs, which is on the order of one percent of the Coulomb energy at nuclear scales is discussed. The eff…
Vacuum energy density and pressure inside a soft wall
Agam Shayit, S. A. Fulling, T. E. Settlemyre +1
In the study of quantum vacuum energy and the Casimir effect, it is desirable to model the conductor by a potential of the form . This "soft wall" model was proposed so a…
Renormalization for a Scalar Field in an External Scalar Potential
S. A. Fulling, T. E. Settlemyre, K. A. Milton
The Pauli--Villars regularization procedure confirms and sharpens the conclusions reached previously by covariant point splitting. The divergences in the stress tensor of a quantiz…
Vacuum energy density and pressure near a soft wall
S. W. Murray, C. M. Whisler, S. A. Fulling +5
Perfectly conducting boundaries, and their Dirichlet counterparts for quantum scalar fields, predict nonintegrable energy densities. A more realistic model with a finite ultraviole…