The Perturbative Onset of Multiparticle Production in Weak Interactions

Abstract

We use perturbation theory to estimate the energy scale beyond which multiparticle final states become a dominant feature of high energy weak interactions. Using estimates from a weak parton model and comparing two, three and four body final states we deduce that multiparticle states become important at energy scales in the range 10**7 - 10**9 GeV.

23 pages, 10 figures (in PostScript, available on request), typeset in LaTeX, UCLA 92/TEP/38