A New Perspective on Electroweak Strings
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The vortex solution (Z-string) of the electroweak interactions can be interpreted as the 2-dimensional sphaleron at the top of a non-contractible sphere. The same holds for another type of solution, the W-string.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9402207,
title = {A New Perspective on Electroweak Strings},
author = {F. R. Klinkhamer and P. Olesen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9402207},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, Latex, NIKHEF-H/94-02 (February 2, 1994), 1 figure available by fax or mail (send request to [email protected])