2017/07/26 by Gabriella Piccinelli, Ángel Sánchez, Angel Sanchez · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Charged particle #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Fermion #Formalism (music) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Magnetic field #Pair production #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar boson #Scalar field #Thermal #Thermodynamics #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.96.076014
published as Phys. Rev. D 96, 076014 (2017) · 12 pages, 8 figures
arxiv created 2017/07/26 · openalex created_date 2017/07/31 · openalex publication_date 2017/10/24 · arxiv updated 2017/11/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In this work we explore the effects of a weak magnetic field and a thermal bath on the decay process of a neutral scalar boson into two charged scalar bosons. Our findings indicate that a magnetic field inhibits pair production, while temperature enhances it. The employed formalism allows us to isolate the contribution of magnetic fields in vacuum, leading to a separate analysis of the effects of different ingredients. This is essential since the analytical computation of the decay width requires some approximation and the results that can be found in the literature are not always coincident. We perform the calculation in vacuum by two different weak-field approximations. The particle pair production in vacuum is found to coincide with finite-temperature behavior, which is opposite the results obtained by other authors in scenarios that involve neutral particles decaying into a pair of charged fermions. Among other differences between these scenarios, we find out that the analytical structure of the self-energy imposed by the spin of particles involved in the process is determinant in the behavior of the decay rate with the magnetic field.