The Origin of the Sphaleron Dipole Moment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-22 v2
Abstract
By providing a suitable definition of the electromagnetic field off the Higgs vacuum, we show that within the sphaleron there is a monopole-antimonopole pair with quantized charges, and a loop of electromagnetic current. On integration of the relevant charges and currents over the interior in the limit of small , we recover the standard formula for the sphaleron dipole moment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9307205,
title = {The Origin of the Sphaleron Dipole Moment},
author = {Mark Hindmarsh and Margaret James},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9307205},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13pp Plain TeX, 2 ps figures in 2 files, self-unpacking uuencoded. (Tidied up, discussion of 't Hooft definition of electromagnetic charge, and 2 nice new figures showing charge and current distributions inside the sphaleron.)