Muon decay in a laser field

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.

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• Pair production with neutrinos and high-intensity laser fields
• Pair production with neutrinos in an intense background magnetic field

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