Astrophysical Production of Fractional Charge in Broken Quantum Chromodynamics
- 9 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 47 (19) , 1357-1360
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.1357
Abstract
The production of states of fractional charge in the early universe and by cosmic rays is calculated when quantum chromodynamics is broken at a scale less than that of the quantum chromodynamics scale parameter . It is shown that it is possible to produce a detectable abundance of fractional charge states by both mechanisms.
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