Electroweak Sphalerons with Spin and Charge
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-04-15 v1
Abstract
We show that, at finite weak mixing angle the sphaleron solution of Weinberg-Salam theory can be endowed with angular momentum proportional to the electric charge. Carrying baryon number 1/2 these sphalerons with spin and charge may contribute to baryon number violating processes.
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@article{arxiv.0810.1142,
title = {Electroweak Sphalerons with Spin and Charge},
author = {Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz and Michael Leissner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1142},
year = {2010}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures