7 papers
Vortices of the Hitchin Equations
Nicholas S. Manton
The vortices that appear in Hitchin's pioneering study of Higgs bundles are interpreted as a new version of the abelian Higgs vortices more familiar to theoretical physicists. Thei…
Circle of Alpha-Particle Cluster Shapes in Neon-20
N. S. Manton
Quantum states of Neon-20 are generally agreed to lie in rotational-vibrational bands of a cluster of five alpha particles. However, more than one cluster shape has been proposed a…
Collision Dynamics of False-Vacuum Oscillons
J. G. F. Campos, N. S. Manton, Azadeh Mohammadi
We study the collision dynamics of localized oscillons in two classes of -dimensional scalar field theories with metastable false vacua, a normal class with a positive quart…
Coulomb-Corrected Wormhole Model for Neon-20
Ruoxin Bai, N. S. Manton
Building on the spatial wormhole geometry proposed by Manton and Dunajski, we develop a modified model for the Neon-20 nucleus that incorporates a repulsive Coulomb potential. This…
A SMEFT
N. S. Manton
An extension of the Standard Model is proposed, where the Higgs field is valued in the complex projective plane , rather than . Its geometry is con…
Approach to nuclear cross sections via classical Skyrmion scattering: A proposal
N. S. Manton
By analogy with heavy ion collisions, which can be modelled by a classical hydrodynamics, it is proposed that the differential cross section for collisions of smaller nuclei can be…