Breakdown of Flavor Conservation in a Monopole Background

Authors

V. Parameswaran Nair, City College of New YorkFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-15-1983

Abstract

We give a simple derivation of the catalysis of baryon decay and other flavor-changing processes by monopoles. The role of the axial anomaly is clarified. A general current-algebraic argument which clarifies the nature of flavor violation is also given.

Comments

This work was originally published in Physical Review D, available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.28.2673.