HIGH-ENERGY BEHAVIOR OF BARYON-NUMBER AND LEPTON-NUMBER VIOLATING SCATTERING-AMPLITUDES IN THE STANDARD MODEL

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ESPINOSA, O
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[1] California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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10.1016/0550-3213(90)90473-Q
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We calculate the coupling constant and energy dependence of the scattering amplitudes for baryon- and lepton-number violating processes in the context of the standard model, in the semiclassical approximation. It is found that, to leading order in this expansion, the spin-averaged total cross sections for these processes grow as a power of the c.m. energy and thus violate the bound imposed by unitarity. © 1990.
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