Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-02-26
Phys.Lett. B559 (2003) 12-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 2 figures, to appear on Phys. Lett. B, fixed a typo mistake in the reference list
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00299-5
We describe the creation and evolution of electron-positron pairs in a strong electric field as well as the pairs annihilation into photons. The formalism is based on generalized Vlasov equations, which are numerically integrated. We recover previous results about the oscillations of the charges, discuss the electric field screening and the relaxation of the system to a thermal equilibrium configuration. The timescale of the thermalization is estimated to be $\sim 10^{3}-10^{4} \hbar /m_{e}c^{2}$.
Ruffini Remo
Vitagliano Luca
Xue She-Sheng
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