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Title: Generalized monopoles in six-dimensional non-Abelian gauge theory

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 (Japan)
  2. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551 (Japan)

A spherically symmetric monopole solution is found in SO(5) gauge theory with Higgs scalar fields in the vector representation in six-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The action of the Yang-Mills fields is quartic in field strengths. The solution saturates the Bogomolny bound and is stable.

OSTI ID:
20705979
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 71, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.041701; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English