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Bound states can stabilize electroweak strings (1993)

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PhysicsLetters North Holland PHYSICS LETTERS Bound states can stabilize electroweak strings m Vachaspati Tufts Institute Cosmology Department Physics and Astronomy Tufts University Medford USA and h Watkins Physics Department University Michigan Ann Arbor USA Received June revised manuscript received August Editor Georgi show that the stability the electroweak string greatly improved the presence bound states complex scalar field This stabilization mechanism could work for other embedded defects and also for unstable solutions such the sphaleron now known that vortex solutions may embedded almost any field theoretic model that exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking particular two distinct vortex solutions are known embedded the standard electroweak model These are called the string and the string the literature The string conjectured unstable for all values the parameters while the string has been shown stable only for sin The string the standard electroweak model with sin unstable and remains even high temperatures such would present the early universe the string solutions are indeed unstable under all circumstances their relevance physical processes would probably negligible However this letter shall show that the strings can stabilized the presence other scalar and perhaps fermionic fields the theory The idea behind this result quite simple understand especially one aware the reason that permits the existence non topological solitons Suppose that have theory which the Higg. Peer Reviewed. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/30444/1/0000067.pdf

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/30444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(93)91800-3
Publisher Elsevier
Contributors Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, Tufts Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Repository University of Michigan (United States)
Keywords Physics, Mathematics, Science
Language English