A numerical evaluation of vacuum polarization tensor in constant external magnetic fields

DOI10.1142/S0217751X13501005MaRDI QIDQ2866862zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ken-Ichi Ishikawa, Daiji Kimura, Kenta Shigaki, Asako Tsuji

Publication date 9 December 2013

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3655

zbMATH Keywords

vacuum polarizationstrong magnetic field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: Hattori-Itakura have recently derived the full Landau-level summation form for the photon vacuum polarization tensor in constant external magnetic fields at the one-loop level. The Landau-level summation form is essential when the photon momentum exceeds the threshold of the pair creation of charged particles in a magnetic field stronger than the squared mass of the charged particle. The tensor has three different form factors depending on the tensor direction with respect to the external magnetic field. The renormalization is nontrivial because these form factors are expressed in terms of double or triple summation forms. We give a numerical UV subtraction method which can be applied to numerically evaluate the form factors in constant external magnetic fields. We numerically investigate the photon vacuum polarization tensor in the form of the Landau-level summation and estimate the systematic errors coming from truncation of the Landau-level summation in a parameter region realized in heavy ion collision experiments. We find that the error is practically controllable at an $O(10^{-2})$ level for electrons and muons in strong magnetic fields expected in heavy ion collisions in the experimentally feasible kinematic parameter regions.

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