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- From: matt@physics16.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Why do protons outnumber antiprotons?
- Message-ID: <MATT.92Sep8172500@physics16.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 00:25:00 GMT
- References: <1992Sep01.152644.18241@CS.ORST.EDU> <12950074@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>
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- In-reply-to: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu's message of 8 Sep 92 23:46:00 GMT
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- In article <mcirvin.715995960@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
-
- > Either
- > it's the result of weird initial conditions, or it might be the result
- > of Sakharov's conditions being met, with baryon number nonconservation
- > coming either from GUT couplings or from the anomalous term in the
- > electroweak lagrangian.
-
- The latter possibility seems rather unlikely to me; baryon number
- violation in the Standard Model proceeds through topological effects,
- and is suppressed by a factor of something like exp(-1/alpha). This
- is tiny enough so that I tend to think of this effect as a theoretical
- curiosity that probably has no experimental implications at all.
-
- (Unless, of course, something odd happens at very, very high
- temperatures; I've never heard of any suggestions that might be the
- case, though.)
- --
- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
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