Pair Production in the Collapse of a Hopf Texture
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We consider the collapse of a global "Hopf" texture and examine the conjecture, disputed in the literature, that monopole-antimonopole pairs can be formed in the process. We show that such monopole-antimonopole pairs can indeed be nucleated in the course of texture collapse given appropriate initial conditions. The subsequent dynamics include the recombination and annihilation of the pair in a burst of outgoing scalar radiation.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808310,
title = {Pair Production in the Collapse of a Hopf Texture},
author = {Eric W. Hirschmann and Steven L. Liebling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808310},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, 11 figures, MPEG movies available at http://godel.ph.utexas.edu/~ehirsch/hopf.html