Astrophysical Production of Fractional Charge in Broken Quantum Chromodynamics

Edward W. Kolb; G. Steigman; Michael S. Turner

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1357

Astrophysical Production of Fractional Charge in Broken Quantum Chromodynamics

Edward W. Kolb, G. Steigman, and Michael S. Turner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1357 – Published 9 November 1981

Abstract

The production of states of fractional charge in the early universe and by cosmic rays is calculated when quantum chromodynamics is broken at a scale less than that of the quantum chromodynamics scale parameter $Λ$ . It is shown that it is possible to produce a detectable abundance of fractional charge states by both mechanisms.

Received 17 July 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1357

Authors & Affiliations

Edward W. Kolb^*, G. Steigman^†, and Michael S. Turner^‡

Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106

^*Permanent address: Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M. 87545.
^†Permanent address: Bartol Research Foundation, University of Delaware, Newark, Del. 19711.
^‡Permanent address: Astronomy and Astrophysics Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 60637.