On the Stability of Electroweak Strings (New Version)
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We map the parameter space that leads to stable Z-vortices in the electroweak model. For , we find that the strings are unstable for a Higgs mass larger than 24 GeV. Given the latest constraints on the Higgs mass from LEP, this shows that, if the standard electroweak model is realized in Nature, the Z-vortex (in the bare model) is unstable.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9208218,
title = {On the Stability of Electroweak Strings (New Version)},
author = {M. James and L. Perivolaropoulos and T. Vachaspati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9208218},
year = {2007}
}
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