On Plasma Oscillations in Strong Electric Fields

Details On Plasma Oscillations in Strong Electric Fields On Plasma Oscillations in Strong Electric Fields

2003-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302549v2

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 $\sim 10^{3}-10^{4} \hbar /m_{e}c^{2}$.

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