A new perspective on electroweak strings
Abstract
The vortex solution ( Z-string) of the electroweak interactions can be interpreted as the 2-dimensional sphaleron at the top of a non-contractible sphere. The same holds for another type of solution, the W-string.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- July 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0550-3213(94)00116-2
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9402207
- Bibcode:
- 1994NuPhB.422..227K
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, Latex, NIKHEF-H/94-02 (February 2, 1994), 1 figure available by fax or mail (send request to library@nikhef.nl)