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Multisphalerons in the Weak Interactions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We construct multisphaleron solutions in the weak interactions. The multisphaleron solutions carry Chern-Simons charge n/2n/2, where nn is an integer. The well-known sphaleron has n=1n=1 and is spherically symmetric for vanishing mixing angle. In contrast the multisphalerons with n>1n>1 are only axially symmetric, even for vanishing mixing angle. The greater nn, the stronger the energy density deforms. While for small Higgs masses the energy of the multisphalerons is smaller than nn times the energy of the sphaleron, the energy of the multisphalerons is larger than nn times the energy of the sphaleron for large Higgs masses.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9403289,
  title  = {Multisphalerons in the Weak Interactions},
  author = {Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9403289},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, latex, 8 figures in uuencoded postscript files. THU-94/04