Numerical Approaches to High Energy Electroweak Baryon Number Violation Above and Below the Sphaleron Barrier

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1997-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9706424v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

44 pages, LaTeX, 8 figures. This paper is based on talks given by C. Rebbi and R. Singleton at the 1996 Summer School on Cosmo

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We review some promising numerical techniques for calculating high energy baryon number violating cross sections in the standard model. As these lectures are designed to be self- contained, we present in some detail the formalism of Rubakov, Son, and Tinyakov, which provides a means of bounding the two-particle cross sections in a semi-classical manner. The saddle-point solutions required by this method must be found computationally and are of two basic types, corresponding to tunneling events between adjacent topological sectors on the one hand, and classically allowed evolution over the sphaleron barrier on the other. In both cases one looks for topology changing solutions of small incident particle number. In the classically allowed regime we have developed a Monte Carlo technique that systematically lowers the particle number while still ensuring that a change in topology takes place. We also make progress towards a numerical method amenable for the more computationally challenging problem of finding the complexified tunneling solutions, and we present some of our numerical findings, both above and below the sphaleron barrier.

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