QED model of the radiation escape from the matter
arXiv:1204.2369 · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/45/16/165006
Abstract
A simple model based on QED is presented for the estimation of contribution of the excited level few-photon decays to the radiation escape from the matter in the epoch of the cosmological hydrogen recombination. It is shown that apart from the widely studied two-photon decays, some specific 3-photon decays can contribute on the level of 0.1% accuracy, required by the recent astrophysical observations.
21 pages, 3 figures, 1 Table
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