Muon decay in a laser field
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-01-21 v2
Abstract
We investigate the change in the decay rate of a muon caused by embedding it in the field of a laser. A previous paper found that the change could be large, as much as an order of magnitude. We find the more intuitive result that the change is small and give analytic expressions for the small corrections.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.2367,
title = {Muon decay in a laser field},
author = {Duane A. Dicus and Arsham Farzinnia and Wayne W. Repko and Todd M. Tinsley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.2367},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, LaTeX v2: modified introduction, typos corrected