QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS AROUND THE ELECTROWEAK SPHALERON

被引:61
作者
BAACKE, J
JUNKER, S
机构
[1] Institut für Physik, Universität Dortmund
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1994年 / 49卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.49.2055
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P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present an analysis of the quantum fluctuations around the electroweak sphaleron and calculate the associated determinant which gives the one-loop correction to the sphaleron transition rate. The calculation differs in various technical aspects from a previous analysis by Carson and co-workers so that it can be considered as independent. The numerical results differ also, by several orders of magnitude, from those of this previous analysis; we find that the sphaleron transition rate is much less suppressed than found previously.
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页码:2055 / 2073
页数:19
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