SU(5) Monopoles, Magnetic Symmetry and Confinement
Dec, 19799 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 170 (1980) 156-164
- Published: 1980
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- CERN-TH-2800
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The monopoles of the unified SU(5) gauge theory broken down to H E = SU(3) c ⊗ U(1) EM [or to K E = SU(3) c ⊗ SU(2) ⊗ U(1) Y ], are classified. They belong to representations of a magnetic group H M (K M ), which is found to be isomorphic to H E (K E ). For SU(5) broken down to H E , there exists a regular and stable monopole which is a colour magnetic triplet, and carries a non-zero abelian magnetic charge. It is suggested that composite operators made out of this monopole and its antiparticle fields develop a non-zero vacuum expectation value, and so lead to a squeezing of the colour electric flux. Finally, we comment on the cosmological production of SU(5) monopoles.- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: NONABELIAN
- UNIFIED FIELD THEORY
- STRONG INTERACTION
- ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTION
- WEAK INTERACTION
- GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(5)
- SYMMETRY BREAKING
- SYMMETRY: SU(3) X U(1)
- SYMMETRY: SU(3) X SU(2) X U(1)
- FIELD EQUATIONS: MONOPOLE
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