Stability of Modified Electroweak Strings
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-25 v3 Astrophysics
Abstract
We discuss the stability of an electroweak string with axions in its core, which give to the configuration a quasi-topological property, and compare it with other modifications using instantons in the thin wall approximation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9410211,
title = {Stability of Modified Electroweak Strings},
author = {Luis Masperi and Ariel Megevand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9410211},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Minor changes and inclusion of one figure. To be published on Z. f. Physik C. 11 pages, 1 postcript figure