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Production of light pseudoscalars in external electromagnetic fields by the Schwinger mechanism

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

We generalize the Schwinger mechanism and calculate the probability of the decay of intense electromagnetic fields to pseudoscalar particles. We also point out that our estimate for axion emission in a previous paper was incorrect.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9912485,
  title  = {Production of light pseudoscalars in external electromagnetic fields by the Schwinger mechanism},
  author = {J. A. Grifols and Eduard Masso and Subhendra Mohanty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9912485},
  year   = {2009}
}

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25 pages including 9 figures. Version that matches published version