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Magnetic monopole mass bounds from heavy ion collisions and neutron stars (2017)
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Gould, O., & Rajantie, A. (2017). Magnetic monopole mass bounds from heavy ion collisions and neutron stars. Physical Review Letters, 119(24), Article 241601. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.241601

Magnetic monopoles, if they exist, would be produced amply in strong magnetic fields and high temperatures via the thermal Schwinger process. Such circumstances arise in heavy-ion collisions and in neutron stars, both of which imply lower bounds on t... Read More about Magnetic monopole mass bounds from heavy ion collisions and neutron stars.

Thermal Schwinger pair production at arbitrary coupling (2017)
Journal Article
Gould, O., & Rajantie, A. (2017). Thermal Schwinger pair production at arbitrary coupling. Physical Review D, 96(7), Article 076002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.076002

We calculate the rate of thermal Schwinger pair production at arbitrary coupling in weak external fields. Our calculations are valid independently of many properties of the charged particles produced, in particular their spin and whether they are ele... Read More about Thermal Schwinger pair production at arbitrary coupling.