Shapes of cosmic strings and baryon number violation

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 376, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 41-47

  Sato, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baryogenesis; Baryon number violation; Bosonization; Cosmic string; Linking number; Writhing number; Zero mode

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037842988     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00271-7     Document Type: Article

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