Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 83 No. 4 (1990) pp. 671-676

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Relaxation of Baryon Number in the Standard Electroweak Model

Tomoya Akiba, Hisashi Kikuchi^* and Tsutomu Yanagida

Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980
^*College of Liberal Arts and Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606

(Received January 19, 1990)

Abstract:

We examine relaxation of the baryon number in the standard electroweak model, taking into account fermion fields. We show that the relaxation takes place at the electroweak scale to minimize the fermion free energy.

URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/83/671/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.83.671

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