TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnetic monopole - Domain wall collisions
AU - Brush, Micah
AU - Pogosian, Levon
AU - Vachaspati, Tanmay
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Physical Society.
PY - 2015/8/5
Y1 - 2015/8/5
N2 - Interactions of different types of topological defects can play an important role in the aftermath of a phase transition. We study interactions of fundamental magnetic monopoles and stable domain walls in a grand unified theory in which SU(5)×Z2 symmetry is spontaneously broken to SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)/Z6. We find that there are only two distinct outcomes depending on the relative orientation of the monopole and the wall in internal space. In one case, the monopole passes through the wall, while in the other it unwinds on hitting the wall.
AB - Interactions of different types of topological defects can play an important role in the aftermath of a phase transition. We study interactions of fundamental magnetic monopoles and stable domain walls in a grand unified theory in which SU(5)×Z2 symmetry is spontaneously broken to SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1)/Z6. We find that there are only two distinct outcomes depending on the relative orientation of the monopole and the wall in internal space. In one case, the monopole passes through the wall, while in the other it unwinds on hitting the wall.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.045008
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.045008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940426490
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 92
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 4
M1 - 045008
ER -