Supercooling in the SU(5) Phase Transitions and Magnetic Monopole Suppression

Cook, Gale P.; Mahanthappa, K.T.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.23.1321

Supercooling in the SU(5) Phase Transitions and Magnetic Monopole Suppression

Gale P. Cook
(
- Colorado U.
)
,
K.T. Mahanthappa
(
- Colorado U.
)

Feb, 1981

23 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 23 (1981) 1321

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.23.1321

Report number:

COLO-HEP-27-REV,
COLO-HEP-27

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Abstract: (APS)

We demonstrate that there exists a range of values of parameters which leads to a supercooled transition from the symmetric SU(5) phase to the asymmetric SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1) phase when the scalar quartic coupling constants in the Higgs potential are O(g4), g being the gauge coupling constant. We find that the transition is supercooled throughout most of the light Higgs region. These results are compared with the results of phase transitions in the standard model of electroweak interactions, and are shown to lead to magnetic-monopole suppression, but other serious problems arise.

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Revised Version

UNIFIED FIELD THEORY
GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(5)
WEAK INTERACTION
ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTION
STRONG INTERACTION
SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
MODEL: HIGGS
SYMMETRY: SU(3) X SU(2) X U(1)
FIELD EQUATIONS: MONOPOLE
POSTULATED PARTICLE: MAGNETIC MONOPOLE

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