ℤ2 as the topological origin of B + L violation in the hot electroweak theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 474, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-31

  Axenides, Minos ^a   Johansen, Andrei ^b   Nielsen, Holger Bech ^c   Törnkvist, Ola ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NORDITA   (Denmark)

^e NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Baryon number violation; Fermion level crossing; Gauge field topology; Homotopy groups; Sphaleron

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030593562     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00239-8     Document Type: Article

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