Monopole annihilation at the electroweak scale---Not!
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
We examine the issue of monopole annihilation at the electroweak scale induced by flux tube confinement, concentrating first on the simplest possibility---one which requires no new physics beyond the standard model. Monopoles existing at the time of the electroweak phase transition may trigger condensation which can confine magnetic flux into flux tubes. However we show on very general grounds, using several independent estimates, that such a mechanism is impotent. We then present several general dynamical arguments constraining the possibility of monopole annihilation through any confining phase near the electroweak scale.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9203208,
title = {Monopole annihilation at the electroweak scale---Not!},
author = {E. Gates L. Krauss J. Terning},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9203208},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pp