Thermal pair production from photon-photon collision: Breit–Wheeler process at finite temperature

Abstract In this paper we examine the pair production through the Breit–Wheeler process $$\gamma ~\gamma \rightarrow e^+ e^-$$ γ γ → e + e - in a thermal background. We compute the thermal contribution to the Breit–Wheeler differential cross section within the thermofield dynamics formalism. We eval...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: D. S. Cabral, A. F. Santos, R. Bufalo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2023-12-01
Series:European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12281-5