Is the electric charge conserved?
Abstract
A possible nonconservation of the electric charge is considered in the framework of spontaneously broken gauge models. Assuming the validity of perturbation theory, such models are shown to be inconsistent with experiment unless there exists a scalar particle with the ``pseudocharge'' ɛρ where ɛ<~10-.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- July 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-2693(79)90048-0
- Bibcode:
- 1979PhLB...84..315I