How Efficient Is The Langacker-Pi Mechanism of Monopole Annihilation?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
We investigate the dynamics of monopole annihilation by the Langacker-Pi mechanism. We find taht considerations of causality, flux-tube energetics and the friction from Aharonov-Bohm scatteering suggest that the monopole annihilation is most efficient if electromagnetism is spontaneously broken at the lowest temperature () consistent with not having the monopoles dominate the energy density of the universe.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9203209,
title = {How Efficient Is The Langacker-Pi Mechanism of Monopole Annihilation?},
author = {R. Holman and T. W. B. Kibble and Soo-Jong Rey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9203209},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages