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Schwinger effect for non-Abelian gauge bosons
Michael Ragsdale, Douglas Singleton
We investigate the Schwinger effect for the gauge bosons in an unbroken non-Abelian gauge theory (e.g. the gluons of QCD). We consider both constant "color electric" fields and "co…
Scalar field vacuum expectation value induced by gravitational wave background
Preston Jones, Patrick McDougall, Michael Ragsdale +1
We show that a {\it massless} scalar field in a gravitational wave background can develop a non-zero vacuum expectation value. We draw comparisons to the generation of a non-zero v…
The general relativistic infinite plane
Preston Jones, Gerardo Munoz, Michael Ragsdale +1
Uniform fields are one of the simplest and most pedagogically useful examples in introductory courses on electrostatics or Newtonian gravity. In general relativity there have been…