# Natural suppression of symmetry violation in gauge theories: Muon- and electron-lepton-number nonconservation

@article{Lee1977NaturalSO,
title={Natural suppression of symmetry violation in gauge theories: Muon- and electron-lepton-number nonconservation},
author={B. Lee and R. Shrock},
journal={Physical Review D},
year={1977},
volume={16},
pages={1444-1473}
}
• Published 1977
• Physics
• Physical Review D
• We analyze the circumstances under which the violations of an approximate symmetry in a unified gauge theory of weak interactions are naturally suppressed; in particular, we investigate approximate muon- and electron-type lepton-number conservation as an example of such a symmetry. Extending earlier work, we propose a unified treatment of this symmetry together with strangeness conservation by the weak neutral current and $\mathrm{CP}$ invariance. The rate for the decay \$\ensuremath{\mu… CONTINUE READING
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