Do weak interactions become strong at 10 TeV?

Robert Singleton; Leonard Susskind; Lárus Thorlacius

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(90)90579-3

Do weak interactions become strong at 10 TeV?

Robert Singleton, Leonard Susskind, Lárus Thorlacius

Faculty of Physical Sciences

University of Iceland

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Abstract

Simple model calculations indicate that instanton estimates of high-energy scattering amplitudes are unreliable when the number of final-state particles becomes large. This casts doubt on recent claims that the cross section for baryon number violation becomes large at high energy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	541-553
Number of pages	13
Journal	Nuclear Physics, Section B
Volume	343
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(90)90579-3
Publication status	Published - 29 Oct 1990

Bibliographical note

Funding Information: * Work supported by the Department of Energy, contract DE-ACO3-76SF00515. * * Supported in part by NSF grant PHY89-17438.

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title = "Do weak interactions become strong at 10 TeV?",

abstract = "Simple model calculations indicate that instanton estimates of high-energy scattering amplitudes are unreliable when the number of final-state particles becomes large. This casts doubt on recent claims that the cross section for baryon number violation becomes large at high energy.",

author = "Robert Singleton and Leonard Susskind and L{\'a}rus Thorlacius",

note = "Funding Information: * Work supported by the Department of Energy, contract DE-ACO3-76SF00515. * * Supported in part by NSF grant PHY89-17438.",

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