Schwinger effect in QCD and nuclear physics
Hidetoshi Taya
TL;DR
This paper reviews the Schwinger effect, highlighting its extension from QED to QCD and its relevance in nuclear physics phenomena like string breaking and heavy-ion collisions.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive pedagogical overview of the Schwinger effect's extension to QCD and its applications in nuclear physics contexts.
Findings
Schwinger effect occurs in strong fields producing particle pairs.
Extensions to QCD explain phenomena like string breaking.
Applications include high-Z nuclei and relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
Abstract
We provide a pedagogical review of the Schwinger effect, i.e., the non-perturbative production of particle and anti-particle pairs from the vacuum by strong fields, as well as related strong-field phenomena. Beginning with an overview of the Schwinger effect in quantum electrodynamics, we discuss its extensions to quantum chromodynamics and its applications in nuclear physics, including high- nuclei, string breaking, relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and the chiral anomaly.
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Taxonomy
TopicsQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions · High-Energy Particle Collisions Research · Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics