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e+e− Physics at 100 GeV

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Despite the confident belief of some theorists that they know what will happen at 100 GeV, the primary reason for building very large e+e− machines is to find out how the weak interactions really behave at high energy. Something new must happen. Naive extrapolation of the amplitudes observed at low energy gives weak cross-sections for ēν→X and ēe→X which violate unitarity at \(\sqrt {\text{s}} = 650\) GeV and 1300 GeV, respectively. Something must happen before these energies - perhaps at around 100 GeV where the extrapolated values of the weak and electromagnetic cross-sections of ēe→X become equal.

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Smith, C.H.L. (1983). e+e− Physics at 100 GeV. In: Capri, A.Z., Kamal, A.N. (eds) Particles and Fields 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3593-1_9

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