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Electroweak Strings in the Standard Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-12-06 v1

Abstract

We argue that the existence of the electroweak monopole predicts the existence of the electroweak string in the standard model made of monopole-antimonopole pair separated infinitely apart, which carry the quantized magnetic flux 4πn/e4 \pi n/e. We show how to construct such quantized magnetic flux string solution. Our result strongly indicates that genuine fundamental electromagnetic string could exist in nature which could actually be detected. We discuss the physical implications of our result in cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.2311.17412,
  title  = {Electroweak Strings in the Standard Model},
  author = {Liping Zou and Pengming Zhang and Yongmin Cho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17412},
  year   = {2024}
}
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