Semiclassical force for electroweak baryogenesis: Three-dimensional derivation

Physical Review D

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Kainulainen, Kimmo ^a,b,d   Prokopec, Tomislav ^c   Schmidt, Michael G ^c   Weinstock, Steffen ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b NORDITA   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FERMION; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037104576     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.043502     Document Type: Article

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