Photon Damping Caused by Electron-Positron Pair Production in a Strong Magnetic Field
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-11-15 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Damping of an electromagnetic wave in a strong magnetic field is analyzed in the kinematic region near the threshold of electron-positron pair production. Damping of the electromagnetic field is shown to be noticeably nonexponential in this region. The resulting width of the photon decay is considerably smaller than previously known results.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0107217,
title = {Photon Damping Caused by Electron-Positron Pair Production in a Strong Magnetic Field},
author = {N. V. Mikheev and M. V. Chistyakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0107217},
year = {2010}
}
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13 pages, 4 figure