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Schwinger Pair Creation of Particles and Strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

I shortly review the worldline instanton method for calculating Schwinger pair production rates in (i) one-loop QED (ii) multiloop QED and (iii) one-loop open string theory.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0243,
  title  = {Schwinger Pair Creation of Particles and Strings},
  author = {Christian Schubert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0243},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures, talk given at XIV Mexican School of Particles and Fields, November 8 - 12, 2010, Morelia, Mexico, to appear in the conference proceedings

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