The Sphaleron Rate: Where We Stand

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1999-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9902464v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

11 pages with 4 figures. Talk given at "Strong and Electroweak Matter '98", Copenhagen, 2-5 December 1998

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I review what we know about the ``sphaleron rate'', which is the efficiency of baryon number violation at high temperatures of order 100 GeV in the Standard Model. The leading behavior at weak coupling in the symmetric phase is known accurately; Gamma = (10.7 +- .7) (g^2 T^2 / m_D^2) log(m_D/g^2T)\alpha_w^5 T^4. At realistic values of the coupling our accuracy is worse. We also now have the tools to determine the rate nonperturbatively in the broken electroweak phase; the sphaleron rate there is slower than perturbative estimates.

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