Electroweak interactions become strong at energy above ∼ 10 TeV
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 42 (1) , 171-179
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.42.171
Abstract
We study baryon-number-changing processes at high energy in electroweak theory. We find that at energies of the order of 10 TeV, some inelastic partial-wave amplitudes saturate the unitarity limit and the cross section for such processes becomes as large as . We argue that at high energies, lepton interactions become strong with distributions of particles typical of strong-interaction processes. The multiplicity of particles in the final state is of order , the transverse momenta are of order , and the types of particles are primarily Higgs and gauge bosons and their decay products.
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