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- noun physics The
particle -like solution to anelectroweak field equation
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Such an approximation scheme is only valid when the energy of the system is much less than the height of the barrier separating vacua (in the electroweak theory this is known as the sphaleron).
A Nonperturbative Analogy Mark 2006
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