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Examples of Embedded Defects (in Particle Physics and Condensed Matter)

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v6 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a series of examples designed to clarify the formalism of the companion paper `Embedded Vortices'. After summarising this formalism in a prescriptive sense, we run through several examples: firstly, deriving the embedded defect spectrum for Weinberg-Salam theory, then discussing several examples designed to illustrate facets of the formalism. We then calculate the embedded defect spectrum for three physical Grand Unified Theories and conclude with a discussion of vortices formed in the superfluid 3^3He-A phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9507466,
  title  = {Examples of Embedded Defects (in Particle Physics and Condensed Matter)},
  author = {Nathan F. Lepora and Anne-Christine Davis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9507466},
  year   = {2009}
}

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