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Monopoles Connected by Strings and the Monopole Problem

Edmund J. Copeland
(
- Imperial Coll., London
)
,
D. Haws
(
- Imperial Coll., London
)
,
T.W.B. Kibble
(
- Imperial Coll., London
)
,
D. Mitchell
(
- Imperial Coll., London
)
,
N. Turok
(
- Imperial Coll., London
)

Jul, 1987

13 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 298 (1988) 445-457

Published: 1988

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(88)90350-1

Report number:

Imperial/TP/86-87/24

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

To clarify the status of proposed causality arguments limiting the annihilation rate of monopoles, we present a three-dimensional model for the formation of monopoles connected by strings. The length distribution of the strings has been found using a Monte carlo simulation of the phase transition. The result is that long strings connecting monopoles are exponentially suppressed in agreement with the theoretical predictions of Mitchell and Turok [1]. The implications of our results for the monopole problem are discussed.

ASTROPHYSICS
POSTULATED PARTICLE: MAGNETIC MONOPOLE
MODEL: STRING
MAGNETIC MONOPOLE: ANNIHILATION
ANNIHILATION: MAGNETIC MONOPOLE
FIELD THEORY: SPACE-TIME
APPROXIMATION: LATTICE
SYMMETRY BREAKING: SU(2)
NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS: MONTE CARLO

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