English

Baryon number violation and a new electroweak interaction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We introduce a new supercurrent in the electroweak sector of the standard model. Its interaction with the hypergauge field influences the mass of the Z boson but has no effect on the W^\pm-boson masses. In the leptonic sector it affects the numerical value of the vector and axial coupling constants between neutral currents and the Z boson, and a comparison with experimental values yields an upper bound to the strength of the coupling between the supercurrent and the hypergauge field. In the baryonic sector the supercurrent gives a new contribution to the anomaly equation for baryon number current. As a consequence it may have an effect on baryogenesis.

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@article{arxiv.0712.1991,
  title  = {Baryon number violation and a new electroweak interaction},
  author = {M. N. Chernodub and Antti J. Niemi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1991},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, RevTeX 4.0, no figures; revision: references added, shortened to match the published version

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