Fermions, Anomaly and Unitarity in High-Energy Electroweak Scattering

Abstract

We report the "state of the art" of the problem of $B+L$ violation in high-energy electroweak scatterings. Results of various analyses point toward (though do not prove rigorously yet) the "half-suppression", i.e., that the $B+L$ violating cross section remains suppressed at least by the negative exponent of the single instanton action, at all energies. Most interesting techniques developed in this field are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to unitarity constraints on the anomalous cross section, and to some conceptual problem involving the use of the optical theorem in the presence of instantons.

arXiv comment59 (Latex) pages (+13 postscript figures (1075 blocks) available by e-mail request), GEF-Th-17/1993

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