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A light-fronts approach to electron-positron pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

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B. Segev, J. C. Wells (Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Atomic Physics · Submitted 7 Oct 1997

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The authors' main claim Our result reproduces the result of second-order perturbation theory in the small charge limit while non-perturbative effects arise for realistic charges of the ions.

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CitationB. Segev, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. C. Wells (Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular Physics. "A light-fronts approach to electron-positron pair production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions." arXiv:physics/9710008 (1997). https://pith.science/paper/PCW3ZJCY
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We perform a gauge-transformation on the time-dependent Dirac equation describing the evolution of an electron in a heavy-ion collision to remove the explicit dependence on the long-range part of the interaction. We solve, in an ultra-relativistic limit, the gauged-transformed Dirac equation using light-front variables and a light-fronts representation, obtaining non-perturbative results for the free pair-creation amplitudes in the collider frame. Our result reproduces the result of second-order perturbation theory in the small charge limit while non-perturbative effects arise for realistic charges of the ions.

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s0 We perform a gauge-transformation on the time-dependent Dirac equation describing the evolution of an electron in a heavy-ion collision to remove the explicit dependence on the long-range part of the interaction. method 0.95 0.96 0.05 asserted 1.00
s1 We solve, in an ultra-relativistic limit, the gauged-transformed Dirac equation using light-front variables and a light-fronts representation, obtaining non-perturbative results for the free pair-creation amplitudes in the collider frame. method 0.74 0.97 0.28 asserted 1.00
s2 Our result reproduces the result of second-order perturbation theory in the small charge limit while non-perturbative effects arise for realistic charges of the ions. result 0.75 0.91 0.47 asserted 1.00

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We perform a gauge-transformation on the time-dependent Dirac equation describing the evolution of an electron in a heavy-ion collision to remove the explicit dependence on the long-range part of the interaction. We solve, in an ultra-relativistic limit, the gauged-transformed Dirac equation using light-front variables and a light-fronts representation, obtaining non-perturbative results for the free pair-creation amplitudes in the collider frame. Our result reproduces the result of second-order perturbation theory in the small charge limit while non-perturbative effects arise for realistic charges of the ions.

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