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Decays of near BPS heterotic strings

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547 (United States)
The decay of highly excited massive string states in compactified heterotic string theories is discussed. We calculate the decay rate and spectrum of states carrying momentum and winding in the compactified direction. The longest lived states in the spectrum are near Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) states whose decay is dominated by a single decay channel of massless radiation which brings the state closer to being BPS.
OSTI ID:
20871468
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 74; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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