Abstract:
We consider induced pair production in an external field at finite temperature. One-loop correction to the Green function of a meson is calculated semiclassically within the framework of saddle-point analysis of Schwinger proper time integrals. This correction appears to be exponentially small in terms of inverse temperature dependence. Low-temperature limit is shown to be in full agreement with previously obtained zero-temperature results. The corrections in the low-temperature limits are estimated up to the leading exponential and pre-exponential terms. Comparison is made to earlier calculations of vacuum decay.
Citation:
A. K. Monin, A. V. Zayakin, “Semiclassical Treatment of Induced Schwinger Processes at Finite Temperature”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 87:11 (2008), 709–714; JETP Letters, 87:11 (2008), 611–617