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arxiv: hep-lat/9808031 · v1 · submitted 1998-08-24 · ✦ hep-lat

The Nonperturbative Broken Phase Sphaleron Rate

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keywords ratebarrierbrokenchangemeasurementphasesphaleroncalculation
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I present a technique for measuring the broken phase sphaleron rate nonperturbatively. There are three parts to the calculation: determination of the probability distribution of Chern-Simons number NCS; measurement of <| d\NCS/dt |> at NCS=1/2, the mean rate of change of NCS at the barrier; and measurement of the ``dynamical prefactor,'' the fraction of barrier crossings which result in a permanent integer change in NCS.

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