How to observe the vacuum decay in low-energy heavy-ion collisions

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العنوان: How to observe the vacuum decay in low-energy heavy-ion collisions
المؤلفون: Maltsev, I. A., Shabaev, V. M., Popov, R. V., Kozhedub, Y. S., Plunien, G., Ma, X., Stöhlker, Th., Tumakov, D. A.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113401 (2019)
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Atomic Physics
الوصف: In slow collisions of two bare nuclei with the total charge larger than the critical value $Z_{\rm cr} \approx 173$, the initially neutral vacuum can spontaneously decay into the charged vacuum and two positrons. Detection of the spontaneous emission of positrons would be the direct evidence of this fundamental phenomenon. However, the spontaneously produced particles are indistinguishable from the dynamical background in the positron spectra. We show that the vacuum decay can nevertheless be observed via impact-sensitive measurements of pair-production probabilities. Possibility of such observation is demonstrated using numerical calculations of pair production in low-energy collisions of heavy nuclei.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.113401
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08546
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1903.08546
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv