Scalar field with a time-independent classical source, not trivial after all: from vacuum decay to scattering
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15531v1
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:00:00 GMT
- Title: Scalar field with a time-independent classical source, not trivial after all: from vacuum decay to scattering
- Authors: Leonardo Tinti, Arthur Vereijken, Shahriyar Jafarzade, Francesco Giacosa,
- Abstract summary: We solve exactly for the scattering amplitudes and find that a key ingredient is the production of particles from the unstable vacuum.
We show that the trivial scattering found in the past is the byproduct of the adiabatic switching of the interaction.
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- Abstract: Historically it has been believed that a time-independent classical source has no effect on the scattering of relativistic uncharged field, in contrast with single particle quantum mechanics. In this work we show that the dynamics is not trivial. We solve exactly for the scattering amplitudes and find that a key ingredient is the production of particles from the unstable vacuum, conceptually similar to the Schwinger mechanism. We compute exactly the probabilities for the vacuum to decay in $n$ particles. The time dependence of such probabilities displays interesting properties such as the quantum Zeno effect and in particular has no regime where the exponential decay law is a good approximation. We show that the trivial scattering found in the past is the byproduct of the adiabatic switching of the interaction. In fact, it is not possible to switch off the interaction (adiabatically or otherwise) at distant times and recover the exact results. Finally, this non trivial vacuum behavior is a source of particle production. We argue that such non-perturbative calculations can be phenomenologically relevant for the production processes that are suppressed at the lower orders in perturbation theory, for instance dilaton production in a medium.
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