Triply Charged Monopole and Magnetic Quarks
Abstract
We describe the internal composition of a topologically stable monopole carrying a magnetic charge of that arises from the spontaneous breaking of the trinification symmetry (). Since this monopole carries no color magnetic charge, a charge of is required by the Dirac quantization condition. The breaking of to the Standard Model occurs in a number of steps and yields the desired topologically stable monopole ("magnetic baryon"), consisting of three confined monopoles. The confined monopoles ("magnetic quarks") each carry a combination of Coulomb magnetic flux and magnetic flux tubes, and therefore they do not exist as isolated states. We also display a more elaborate configuration ("fang necklace") composed of these magnetic quarks. In contrast to the monopole which is superheavy and carries a magnetic charge of as well as color magnetic charge, the trinification monopole may have mass in the TeV range, in which case it may be accessible at the LHC and its planned upgrades.
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@article{arxiv.2101.01412,
title = {Triply Charged Monopole and Magnetic Quarks},
author = {George Lazarides and Qaisar Shafi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.01412},
year = {2021}
}
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11 pages including 2 figures, version published in Phys. Lett. B