TY - JOUR
T1 - Monopole non-annihilation at the electroweak scale
AU - Gates, Evalyn
AU - Krauss, Lawrence M.
AU - Terning, John
N1 - Funding Information:
2 Research supported in part by the NSF, DOE, and the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission.
Funding Information:
4 Research supported by NSERC.
PY - 1992/6/25
Y1 - 1992/6/25
N2 - We examine the issue of monopole annihilation at the electroweak scale induced by flux tube confinement, concentrating first on the simplest possibility - one which requires no new physics beyond the standard model. Monopoles existing at the time of the electroweak phase transition may trigger W condensation which can confine magnetic flux into flux tubes. However, we show on very general grounds, using several independent estimates, that such a mechanism is impotent. We then present several general dynamical arguments limiting the possibility of monopole annihilation through any confining phase near the electroweak scale.
AB - We examine the issue of monopole annihilation at the electroweak scale induced by flux tube confinement, concentrating first on the simplest possibility - one which requires no new physics beyond the standard model. Monopoles existing at the time of the electroweak phase transition may trigger W condensation which can confine magnetic flux into flux tubes. However, we show on very general grounds, using several independent estimates, that such a mechanism is impotent. We then present several general dynamical arguments limiting the possibility of monopole annihilation through any confining phase near the electroweak scale.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(92)90437-9
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(92)90437-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002360880
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 284
SP - 309
EP - 316
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 3-4
ER -