Thermal Pair Production from Photon-Photon Collision: Breit-Wheeler Process at Finite Temperature

D. S. Cabral, A. F. Santos, R. Bufalo

In this paper we examine the pair production through the Breit-Wheeler process $\gamma \gamma \to e^{+}{e}^{-}$ in a thermal background. We compute the thermal contribution to the Breit-Wheeler di…