Download or read book Breakdown of QED Vacuum and Luminosity Lifetime of a Heavy Ion Collider written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During beam crossing at a Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider the peripheral electromagnetic field between the fully stripped ions in colliding bunches is sufficiently intense to induce copious particle production. In this manuscript the production of free pair e, e− leptons and bound-electron plus free e particles are addressed in detail. In particular, both perturbative and non-perturbative approaches to these reactions are addressed. Capturing a produced electron into a bound state of an atom is a charge changing reaction that may effect the useful machine luminosity lifetime. The analogies between strong field effects in heavy ion colliders and the next generation of linear colliders are also discussed. 12 refs., 2 figs.