The price of an electroweak monopole

In a recent paper, Cho, Kim and Yoon (CKY) have proposed a version of the SU(2)×U(1) Standard Model with finite-energy monopole and dyon solutions. The CKY model postulates that the effective U(1) gauge coupling →∞ very rapidly as the Englert–Brout–Higgs vacuum expectation value →0, but in a way tha...

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Main Authors: John Ellis, Nick E. Mavromatos, Tevong You
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316001441