Schwinger Pair Creation of Particles and Strings

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.

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

References in corpus (5)

• Worldline Instantons II: The Fluctuation Prefactor
• Pair production in laser fields oscillating in space and time
• Multidimensional Worldline Instantons
• Euler-Heisenberg lagrangians and asymptotic analysis in 1+1 QED, part 1: Two-loop
• Open string pair creation from worldsheet instantons

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