Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-12-06
Phys.Lett. B555 (2003) 227-237
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00060-1
There is a close analogy between electroweak instanton-induced baryon plus lepton number (B+L) violating processes in Quantum Flavor Dynamics (QFD) and hard QCD instanton-induced chirality violating processes in deep-inelastic scattering. In view of the recent information about the latter both from lattice simulations and from the H1 experiment at HERA, it seems worthwhile to reconsider electroweak B+L violation at high energies. We present a state of the art evaluation of QFD instanton-induced parton-parton cross-sections, as relevant at future high energy colliders in the hundreds of TeV regime, such as the projected Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC). We find that the cross-sections are unobservably small in a conservative fiducial kinematical region inferred from the above mentioned QFD--QCD analogy. An extrapolation -- still compatible with lattice results and HERA -- beyond this conservative limit indicates possible observability at VLHC.
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