Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1994-04-15
Phys.Rev. D51 (1995) 802-809
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Replaced with revised version "Tex with phyzzx, 18 pages, CALT-68-1921 Non-trivial changes made: discussion on axion strings c
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.51.802
The scattering of a charged fermion from an electroweak string is studied. Owing to an amplification of the wave function at the core radius, the cross sections for helicity flip processes can be largely enhanced. For $0 <\sin^2 \theta_w < 1/2 $ (where $\theta_w$ is the Weinberg angle), $\omega \sim k \sim m_e$ and $kR \ll 1$, we show that the helicity flip differential cross section for electrons is of the order $m_e^{-1}$ and is independent of angle. We compare our results with those obtained in calculations of rates for baryon number violating processes in the core of a cosmic string. In that case, while the enhancement is a general phenomenon, its actual magnitude is extremely sensitive to the fractional flux carried by the string core. Apart from showing the existence of a similar enhancement effect for non-topological strings, our results indicate that in some models the magnitude of enhancement can be rendered much less sensitive to the value of the parameters in the theories. Scattering of particles off semi-local strings and axion strings are also considered.
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