Quantum Fluctuations around the Electroweak Sphaleron
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
We present an analysis of the quantum fluctuations around the electroweak sphaleron and calculate the associated determinant which gives the 1--loop correction to the sphaleron transition rate. The calculation differs in various technical aspects from a previous analysis by Carson et al. so that it can be considered as independent. The numerical results differ also -- by several orders of magnitude -- from those of this previous analysis; we find that the sphaleron transition rate is much less suppressed than found previously.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9308310,
title = {Quantum Fluctuations around the Electroweak Sphaleron},
author = {J. Baacke and S. Junker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9308310},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
DO-TH-93/19 39 pages, 5 figures (available on request as Postscript files or via Fax or mail), LaTeX, no macros needed