A New Perspective on Electroweak Strings

Abstract

The vortex solution (Z-string) of the electroweak interactions can be interpreted as the 2-dimensional sphaleron at the top of a non-contractible sphere. The same holds for another type of solution, the W-string.

13 pages, Latex, NIKHEF-H/94-02 (February 2, 1994), 1 figure available by fax or mail (send request to [email protected])

References in corpus (2)

• Detailed Stability Analysis of Electroweak Strings
• Construction of a New Electroweak Sphaleron

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• Quantum Energies of Strings in a 2+1 Dimensional Gauge Theory
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• Standard Model Higgs field and energy scale of gravity
• Stability of Modified Electroweak Strings
• Stability Analysis of Superconducting Electroweak Vortices
• Isospin Invariance and the Vacuum Polarization Energy of Cosmic Strings
• Quantum stabilization of Z-strings in the electroweak model
• Scattering from Electroweak Strings
• Cosmic Strings Stabilized by Quantum Fluctuations
• Quantum Solitons in the Electroweak Theory
• Searching for Novel Objects in the Electroweak Theory