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Is there any Nambu monopolium out there?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-04-06 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Magnetic monopoles have been a subject of study for more than a century since the first ideas by A. Vaschy and P. Curie, circa 1890. In 1974, Y. Nambu proposed a model for magnetic monopoles exploring a parallelism between the broken symmetry Higgs and the superconductivity Ginzburg-Landau theories in order to describe the pions quark-antiquark confinement states. There, Nambu describes an energetic string where its end points behave like two magnetic monopoles with opposite magnetic charges -- quark and antiquark. Consequently, not only the interaction among monopole and antimonopole, mediated by a massive vector boson (Yukawa potential), but also the energetic string (linear potential) contributes to the effective interaction potential. We propose here a monopole-antimonopole non confining attractive interaction of the Nambu-type, and then investigate the formation of bound states, the monopolium. Some necessary conditions for the existence of bound states to be fulfilled by the proposed Nambu-type potential, Kato weakness, Set\^o and Bargmann conditions, are verified. In the following, ground state energies are estimated for a variety of monopolium reduced mass, from 10210^2MeV to 10210^2TeV, and Compton interaction lengths, from 10210^{-2}am to 10110^{-1}pm, where discussion about non relativistic and relativistic limits validation is carried out.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.03286,
  title  = {Is there any Nambu monopolium out there?},
  author = {D. O. R. Azevedo and M. L. Bispo and O. M. Del Cima and D. H. T. Franco and A. R. Pereira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03286},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures, 6 references added

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