Gravitating Semilocal strings
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-11-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We discuss the properties of semilocal strings minimally coupled to gravity. Semilocal strings are solutions of the bosonic sector of the Standard Model in the limit (where is the Weinberg angle) and correspond to embedded Abelian-Higgs strings for a particular choice of the scalar doublet. We focus on the limit where the gauge boson mass is equal to the Higgs boson mass such that the solutions fulfill the Bogomolnyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) bound.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0911.3062,
title = {Gravitating Semilocal strings},
author = {Betti Hartmann and Jon Urrestilla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3062},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Contribution to the Proceedings of the Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE) 2009, Bilbao, Spain