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Pair Creation of Open Strings in an Electric Field

C. Bachas, M. Porrati

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9209032

Abstract

We calculate exactly the rate of pair production of open bosonic and supersymmetric strings in a constant electric field. The rate agrees with Schwinger's classic result in the weak-field limit, but diverges when the electric field approaches some critical value of the order of the string tension. (Phyzzx file)

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