Induced decay of the neutral vaccum in overcritical fields occurring in heavy-ion collisions
- In critical or nearly critical heavy-ion collisions, induced as well as spontaneous energyless e-e+ pair creation result in the decay of the neutral vacuum. Induced transitions from the negative-energy continuum into a vacant molecular 1s level can occur even in the absence of diving and produce a substantial enhancement and broadening of the previously considered spontaneous positron spectrum. Total cross sections of 5 b have been calculated for U-U collisions.
| Author: | Kent Smith, Heinrich PeitzGND, Berndt MüllerORCiDGND, Walter GreinerGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-28855 |
| URL: | http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v32/p554 |
| Parent Title (English): | Physical review letters |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2006/06/27 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1974 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2006/06/27 |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 10 |
| Page Number: | 3 |
| First Page: | 554 |
| Last Page: | 556 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 186788959 |
| Institutes: | Physik / Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
