Concept information
Preferred term
sphaleron
Definition
- A sphaleron (Greek: σφαλερός "slippery") is a static (time-independent) solution to the electroweak field equations of the Standard Model of particle physics, and is involved in certain hypothetical processes that violate baryon and lepton numbers. Such processes cannot be represented by perturbative methods such as Feynman diagrams, and are therefore called non-perturbative. Geometrically, a sphaleron is a saddle point of the electroweak potential (in infinite-dimensional field space). (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaleron)
Broader concept
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-HBQXCJDG-N
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