Pair Creation of Open Strings in an Electric Field
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On leave of absence from INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Italy ∗ Address after September 1: Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington pl., New York, N.Y. 10003 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.
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