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@article{Gould:2018:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.056022,
author = {Gould, O and Rajantie, A and Xie, C},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.98.056022},
journal = {Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology},
title = {Worldline sphaleron for thermal Schwinger pair production},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.056022},
volume = {98},
year = {2018}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB  - With increasing temperatures, Schwinger pair production changes from aquantum tunnelling to a classical, thermal process, determined by a worldlinesphaleron. We show this and calculate the corresponding rate of pair productionfor both spinor and scalar quantum electrodynamics, including the semiclassicalprefactor. For electron-positron pair production from a thermal bath of photonsand in the presence of an electric field, the rate we derive is faster thanboth perturbative photon fusion and the zero temperature Schwinger process. Wework to all-orders in the coupling and hence our results are also relevant tothe pair production of (strongly coupled) magnetic monopoles in heavy ioncollisions.
AU  - Gould,O
AU  - Rajantie,A
AU  - Xie,C
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.056022
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1550-2368
TI  - Worldline sphaleron for thermal Schwinger pair production
T2  - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.056022
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02665v1
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/66852
VL  - 98
ER  -

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