The explicit Lorentz invariant QED pair production rates from superstrings

Abstract

We present a new avenue to the usual Schwinger effect via the open string pair production for a system of two Dp branes with $1\le p\le 6$ in Type II superstrings. The two Dp are placed parallel at a separation with one of them carrying the most general constant electromagnetic background allowed for the pair production. By taking the so-called field theory limit, we obtain systematically, from the open string pair production rate, the respective \textit{explicit Lorentz invariant} QED pair production rate in diverse dimensions for a pair of charged/anti-charged massive particles, which can be scalars, spinors or vectors.

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