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Gravitating monopole and black holes at intermediate Higgs masses

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-19 v2

Abstract

Self-gravitating SU(2) Higgs magnetic monopoles exist up to a critical value of the ratio of the vector meson mass to the Planck mass, which depends on the Higgs boson mass. At the critical value a critical solution with a degenerate horizon is reached. As pointed out by Lue and Weinberg, there are two types of critical solutions, with a transition at an intermediate Higgs boson mass. Here we investigate this transition for black holes, and reconsider it for the case of gravitating monopoles.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9911148,
  title  = {Gravitating monopole and black holes at intermediate Higgs masses},
  author = {Y. Brihaye and B. Hartmann and J. Kunz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9911148},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

RevTeX, 7 pp, 7 figs., same results, description of the numerical method added