TY - JOUR
T1 - Electroweak interactions become strong at energy above 10 TeV
AU - McLerran, L.
AU - Vainshtein, A.
AU - Voloshin, M.
PY - 1990/1/1
Y1 - 1990/1/1
N2 - 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 ±w2MW2. 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 1±w, the transverse momenta are of order MW, and the types of particles are primarily Higgs and gauge bosons and their decay products.
AB - 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 ±w2MW2. 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 1±w, the transverse momenta are of order MW, and the types of particles are primarily Higgs and gauge bosons and their decay products.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.42.171
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.42.171
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002821893
VL - 42
SP - 171
EP - 179
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 1
ER -