Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories
Abstract
It is shown that in all those gauge theories in which the electromagnetic group U(1) is taken to be a subgroup of a larger group with a compact covering group, like SU(2) or SU(3), genuine magnetic monopoles can be created as regular solutions of the field equations. Their mass is calculable and of order 137 MW, where MW is a typical vector boson mass.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- September 1974
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0550-3213(74)90486-6
- Bibcode:
- 1974NuPhB..79..276T