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Fermion particle pair production in strong SU(2)-gauge chromoelectric fields is studied using the Boltzmann–Vlasov equation in a classical way. The existence of a preproduction process in a classical description is shown using the distribution evolution of non-Abelian particle production. It is interesting to find that the distribution of the particle number density is centered on two islands and shows a split on the color charge sphere as it evolves, ultimately reaching a steady state that is related to the amplitude and variation of the field.
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Jia, MR., Li, ZL., Lv, C. et al. Pair production in strong SU(2) background fields. Front. Phys. 12, 121101 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-016-0615-0
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