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Vacuum Structure in Intense Fields

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. H. M. Fried

    1. Brown University, Providence, USA

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  2. Berndt Müller

    1. Duke University, Durham, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 255)

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  3. Particles in Strong/Supercritical Fields

    1. Strong Coulomb Coupling of Charged Particles

      • M. Bawin
      Pages 51-69

    2. Quantum Electrodynamical Corrections in Critical Fields

      • G. Soff
      Pages 71-89

    3. Channeling, Bremsstrahlung and Pair Creation in Single Crystals

      • Allan H. Sørensen
      Pages 91-118

    4. QED in Strong Coulomb Fields: Charged Vacuum, Atomic Clock, and Correlated, Narrow e+e−-Lines

      • S. Graf, B. Müller, E. Stein, J. Reinhardt, G. Soff, W. Greiner
      Pages 119-151

    5. Production of hypothetical X 0-mesons in high-energy channeling reactions

      • Jürgen Augustin, Stefan Graf, Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
      Pages 153-156

    6. Pair Conversion in Sub- and Supercritical Potentials

      • Ch. Hofmann, J. Reinhardt, G. Soff, W. Greiner, P. Schlüter
      Pages 157-163

    7. Production of Exotic Particles in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

      • M. Greiner, M. Vidović, J. Rau, C. Hofmann, G. Soff
      Pages 165-175

  4. Quantum Electrodynamics in Intense Fields

    1. Application of the Proper-Time Method to Non-Perturbative Effects in QED

      • Alan Chodos
      Pages 177-193

    2. A New Phase of QED in Strong Coupling: A Guide for the Perplexed

      • Elbio Dagotto
      Pages 195-221

    3. Continuum Limit of Quenched QED. Critical Exponents and Anomalous Dimensions

      • Aleksandar Kocić
      Pages 223-239

    4. Non-Perturbative External Field Effects in QED

      • Janos Polonyi
      Pages 241-255

    5. Functional Integrals in the Strong Coupling Regime

      • G. V. Efimov, G. Ganbold
      Pages 257-262

    6. A Phase Transition of QED, Schwinger’s Proper Time Formalism; Chemical Potential and Electric Field

      • David A. Owen
      Pages 263-272

    7. Are There Background Fields That Can Induce QED Phase Transitions at Weak Coupling?

      • Y. Jack Ng, Y. Kikuchi
      Pages 273-282

    8. New QED, the GSI Peaks, and Background Fields

      • D. G. Caldi
      Pages 283-291

    9. Functional Approach to Strong-Coupling in (QED)4 and (QCD)4

      • H. M. Fried
      Pages 293-313
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This Advanced Study Institute (ASI) brought together two distinct ·"schools of approach" to Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in the presence of intense, external, electromagnetic fields, in an effort to lay a joint foundation for a needed theoretical explanation of the sharp e+ e- "resonances" observed in the scattering of very heavy IOns. These (GSI/Darmstadt) experiments, whose history, latest reconfirmations, and most recent data were presented in three opening sessions (Bokemeyer, Koenig), show a smooth background of positron (e+) production, as a function of e+ kinetic energy. Superimposed upon this background are four very sharp peaks, of narrow widths (~ 30 KeV) and of clear experimental significance ('" 5 standard deviations). Most ofthese peaks correspond to sharp, essentially back-to-back electron-positron emission in the ions' center of mass. Following the approach of "supercritical" potential theory (SPT), where the total ionic charge unit Z satisfies Z > 137, it has been possible to provide a detailed and apparently correct understanding of the smooth e+ e- background; a coherent description of different facets of this approach, emphasizing the nature of the charged, supercritical vacuum, was described by the authors responsible for the invention of SPT (Greiner, Muller, Rafelski). In addition, predictions for related phenomena were outlined by other lecturers using the SPT approach (Bawin, Soff, SsJrensen).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Brown University, Providence, USA

    H. M. Fried

  • Duke University, Durham, USA

    Berndt Müller

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Vacuum Structure in Intense Fields

  • Editors: H. M. Fried, Berndt Müller

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series B:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0441-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43910-0Due: 31 August 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-0443-3Published: 15 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-0441-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1221

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 452

  • Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

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