BPS magnetic monopole bags
- School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, 207-43, Cheongnyangni-2dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-722 (Korea, Republic of)
We explore the characteristics of spherical bags made of large numbers of BPS magnetic monopoles. There are two extreme limits. In the Abelian bag, N zeros of the Higgs field are arranged in a quasiregular lattice on a sphere of radius R{sub cr}{approx}N/v, where v is the Higgs vacuum expectation value. The massive gauge fields of the theory are largely confined to a thin shell at this radius that separates an interior with almost vanishing magnetic and Higgs fields from an exterior region with long-range Coulomb magnetic and Higgs fields. In the other limiting case, which we term a non-Abelian bag, the N zeros of the Higgs field are all the origin, but there is again a thin shell of radius R{sub cr}. In this case the region enclosed by this shell can be viewed as a large monopole core, with small Higgs field but nontrivial massive and massless gauge fields.
- OSTI ID:
- 21259839
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 79, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.025013; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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