Flavor changing strings and domain walls

Apr, 1993
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 72 (1994) 9-12
Report number:
  • IC-93-77

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Abstract: (APS)
We consider the cosmological consequences of a spontaneous breaking of non-Abelian discrete symmetries, which may appear as a natural remnant of a continuous symmetry, such as a family symmetry. The result may be a stable domain wall across which an electron would turn into a muon (or νe into νμ) or a flavor analog of an Alice string–domain-wall structure with the same property.
  • string model: flavor changing
  • symmetry: discrete
  • symmetry: nonabelian
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking
  • algebra: quantization
  • group theory: embedding
  • domain wall
  • astrophysics