Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-01-12
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 1020-1043
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
57 pages, LaTeX, 14 figues. Four of these figures are gray scale 3D surface plots too large to distribute in color. The full c
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.1020
We use semiclassical methods to study processes which give rise to change of topology and therefore to baryon number violation in the standard model. We consider classically allowed processes, i.e.~energies above the sphaleron barrier. We develop a computational procedure that allows us to solve the Yang Mills equations of motion for spherically symmetric configurations and to identify the particle numbers of the in- and out-states. A stochastic sampling technique is then used to map the region spanned by the topology changing solutions in the energy versus incoming particle number plane and, in particular, to determine its lower boundary. A lower boundary which approaches small particle number would be a strong indication that baryon number violation would occur in high energy collisions, whereas a lower asymptote at large particle number would be evidence of the contrary. With our method and the computational resources we have had at our disposal, we have been able to determine the lower boundary up to energies approximately equal to one and a half time times the sphaleron energy and observed a 40\% decrease in particle number with no sign of the particle number leveling off. However encouraging this may be, the decrease in incoming particle number is only from particles 50 down to approximately 30. Nevertheless, the formalism we have established will make it possible to extend the scope of this investigation and also to study processes in the classically forbidden region, which we plan to do in the future.
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Rebbi Claudio
Singleton Robert
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