pair creation: A field-theory approach
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 32 (3) , 819-820
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.32.819
Abstract
Quark-antiquark () pair creation is reexamined in quantum chromodynamics. The pair-creation-probability expression is derived in a Lorentz-covariant formalism and its Abelian specialization is shown to give Schwinger's original quantum-electrodynamics results.
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