Muon pair creation from positronium in a circularly polarized laser field

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Müller, Carsten ^a   Hatsagortsyan, Karen Z ^a   Keitel, Christoph H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

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EID: 33750339731     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.074017     Document Type: Article

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