Field-induced axion decay $a \to e^+ e^-$ via plasmon
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
The axion decay via a plasmon is investigated in an external magnetic field. The results we have obtained demonstrate a strong catalyzing influence of the field as the axion lifetime in the magnetic field of order G and at temperature of order 10 MeV is reduced to sec.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9812408,
title = {Field-induced axion decay $a \to e^+ e^-$ via plasmon},
author = {N. V. Mikheev and A. Ya. Parkhomenko and L. A. Vassilevskaya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9812408},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, latex, 2 PS figures, used espcrc2.sty Talk given at the 5th IFT Workshop on Axions, 13-15 March 1998, Gainesville, Florida, USA. To be published in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)