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The Spontaneous Breakdown of the Vacuum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v1
Authors: A. C. Melissinos
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Abstract

We discuss the spontaneous breakdown of the vacuum by a strong electromagnetic field as observed in SLAC experiment E-144. We show that the data follow the Schwinger non-perturbative result obtained for a static field.

Keywords

vacuum spontaneous breakdown strong electromagnetic field SLAC Schwinger non-perturbative result

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805507,
  title  = {The Spontaneous Breakdown of the Vacuum},
  author = {A. C. Melissinos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805507},
  year   = {2009}
}

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