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Field-induced axion decay $a \to e^+ e^-$ in plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

The axion decay ae+ea \to e^+ e^- is investigated in the presence of a plasma and an external magnetic field. The results demonstrate a strong catalyzing influence of medium. The axion lifetime in the magnetic field of order 101510^{15} G and at the temperature of order 10 MeV is reduced to 10410^4 s.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9812425,
  title  = {Field-induced axion decay $a \to e^+ e^-$ in plasma},
  author = {N. V. Mikheev and A. Ya. Parkhomenko and L. A. Vassilevskaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9812425},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, latex, 2 PS figures, corrected some typos

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