QED and X-ray pulsars
Abstract
Techniques in QED (quantum electrodynamics) have been developed previously allowing one to treat electron-photon and photon-photon interactions exactly in the magnetized vacuum and allowing one to include the effects of a medium. These techniques are extended to include particle-particle interactions. Exact cross-sections for electron-electron collisions are derived and compared with known expressions. Such calculations have application in studies of the formation and transfer of radiation in the atmospheres surrounding neutron stars.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1323358000018129
- Bibcode:
- 1985PASA....6..211A
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- Pulsars;
- Quantum Electrodynamics;
- X Ray Sources;
- Electron Scattering;
- Feynman Diagrams;
- Scattering Cross Sections;
- Stellar Atmospheres;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- Astrophysics