Fred Cooper, John Dawson, Bogdan Mihaila

Paper #: 08-12-051

The transverse distribution of gluon and quark-antiquark pairs produced from a strong constant chromo-electric field depends on two gauge invariant quantities, C1 = EaEa and C2 = [dabcEaEbEc]2, as shown earlier in [G. C. Nayak and P. van Nieuwenhuizen, Phys. Rev. D 71, 125001 (2005)] for gluons and in [G. C. Nayak, Phys. Rev. D 72, 125010 (2005)] for quarks. Here, we discuss the explicit dependence of the distribution on the second Casimir invariant, C2, and show the dependence is at most a 15% effect.

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