Charged Particle Scattering from Electroweak and Semi-Local Strings
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2019-08-17 v2
Abstract
The scattering of a charged fermion from an electroweak or semi-local string is investigated and a full solution obtained for both massive and massless cases. For the former, with fractional string flux, there is a helicity conserving and helicity-flip cross-section, of equal magnitude and of a modified Aharonov-Bohm form: for integer flux the strong interaction cross-section is suppressed by a logarithmic term. The results also apply for GUT cosmic strings and chiral fermions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9311202,
title = {Charged Particle Scattering from Electroweak and Semi-Local Strings},
author = {A. C. Davis and A. P. Martin and N. Ganoulis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9311202},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
18 pages, DAMTP 93-46