Collision-induced decays of electro weak solitons: Fermion number violation with two and few initial particles

Physical Review B-Condensed Matter

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 5315-5335

  Farhi, Edward ^a   Goldstone, Jeffrey ^a   Lue, Arthur ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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