Pair Creation of Open Strings in an Electric Field

Preprint

10 September 1992

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9209032

Abstract

We calculate exactly the rate of pair production of open bosonic and supersymmetric strings in a constant electric field. The rate agrees with Schwinger's classic result in the weak-field limit, but diverges when the electric field approaches some critical value of the order of the string tension. (Phyzzx file)

Keywords

CALCULATE EXACTLY
CRITICAL VALUE
STRING TENSION
ELECTRIC FIELD
PAIR CREATION
OPEN STRINGS
OPEN BOSONIC
STRINGS
TENSION
FILE

All Related Versions

Version 1, 1992-09-10, ArXiv
Published version: Physics Letters B, 296 (1-2), 77.