Enhanced baryon number violation due to cosmic strings

When quarks and leptons propagate in the background of a grand unified cosmic string, various baryon number violating processes can occur. We argue that, because of the long-range pure gauge field that surrounds the string, the cross sections for these processes are generically enhanced by large fac...

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Main Authors: Alford, MG, March-Russell, J, Wilczek, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1989