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Outcomes of Grand Unified Symmetry Breaking
Harish Hemming, Tanmay Vachaspati, Anja Wachowitz
We numerically study the outcome of symmetry breaking motivated by Grand Unified models. Our results show the formation of biased domain walls for a range of parameters together wi…
Domain walls and magnetic monopoles in Grand Unified Models
Harish Hemming, Tanmay Vachaspati, Anja Wachowitz
Motivated by Grand Unification, we study the formation of magnetic monopoles in an SU(3) non-Abelian gauge theory. We find that the number density of magnetic monopoles depends cri…
Cosmic strings and domain walls of the QCD quark condensate with and without a hidden axion
Gia Dvali, Lucy Komisel, Anja Stuhlfauth
The chiral quark condensate of QCD, which spontaneously breaks the anomalous axial symmetry, gives rise to axionic type global string-wall systems. If a Peccei-Quinn type axion exi…
TeV Window to Grand Unification: Higgs's Light Color Triplet Partner
Gia Dvali, Otari Sakhelashvili, Anja Stuhlfauth
The color-triplet partner of the Higgs doublet, called a -particle, is a universal feature of Grand Unification. It has been shown some time ago that this particle can be access…