TY - JOUR
T1 - Bound states can stabilize electroweak strings
AU - Vachaspati, Tanmay
AU - Watkins, Richard
N1 - Funding Information:
We are gratefutl o Alex Vilenkin and Jose Wudka for discussionsT.. V. acknowledgeths es upporto f the NSF and R.W. acknowledgetsh e supporto f NASA Grant No. NAGW-2802.
PY - 1993/11/25
Y1 - 1993/11/25
N2 - We show that the stability of the electroweak Z-string is greatly improved by the presence of bound states of a complex scalar field. This stabilization mechanism could work for other embedded defects and also for unstable solutions such as the sphaleron.
AB - We show that the stability of the electroweak Z-string is greatly improved by the presence of bound states of a complex scalar field. This stabilization mechanism could work for other embedded defects and also for unstable solutions such as the sphaleron.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(93)91800-3
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(93)91800-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0011616542
VL - 318
SP - 163
EP - 168
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
IS - 1
ER -