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hep-ph1997
Fermion Vacuum Effects on Soliton Stability
Stephen G. Naculich
Just as fermion zero modes can alter the degeneracy and quantum numbers of a soliton, fermion energies can affect the form and stability of a nontopological soliton. We discuss the…
hep-ph1995
Electroweak Strings and Fermions
Shion Kono, Stephen Naculich
Z-strings in the Weinberg-Salam model including fermions are unstable for all values of the parameters. The cause of this instability is the fermion vacuum energy in the Z-string b…