BARYON-NUMBER VIOLATION IN HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS

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作者
FARRAR, GR [1 ]
MENG, R [1 ]
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[1] UNIV HAMBURG, INST THEORET PHYS 2, W-2000 HAMBURG 50, GERMANY
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.3377
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We study the phenomenology of baryon-number violation induced by electroweak instantons and find that if the naive instanton amplitudes were valid for arbitrarily high energies, the event rate at the Superconducting Super Collider could be a few per hour. A typical event would consist of 3 "primary" antileptons and 7 "primary" antiquark jets, accompanied by approximately 85 electroweak gauge bosons, having a sharp threshold in the total subenergy at about 17 TeV. However, the instanton approximation is not valid at such high energy (above the sphaleron energy), so that new theoretical methods are needed.
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页码:3377 / 3380
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