An upper bound on the total cross-section for electroweak baryon number violation

Abstract

An upper bound on the total cross-section of s-wave electroweak instanton/sphaleron induced baryon plus lepton number violating processes is presented. It is obtained by exploiting a recently reported lower bound on the corresponding tunneling suppression exponent and by estimating the pre-exponential factor. We find that the present knowledge about electroweak baryon plus lepton number violating processes still allows their eventual observability at the Very Large Hadron Collider, even as pure s-wave scattering. A possibly observable rate at cosmic ray facilities and neutrino telescopes is presently not excluded, but requires a substantial contribution from higher partial waves.

7 pages, 2 figures

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