Electroweak strings: A brief overview

Conference · Wed Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 1992 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)

OSTI ID:6698159

Vachaspati, T ^[1]

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1. Tufts Institute of Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155 (United States)

The [ital W][minus] and [ital Z][minus] strings occurring in the electroweak model are described. Physical arguments are given suggesting that bound states on the strings can stabilize the string solution for suitable parameters.

• OSTI ID: 6698159
• Report Number(s): CONF-920837-; CODEN: APCPCS
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States), Vol. 272:2; Conference: ICHEP-26: 26th International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) conference on high energy physics, Dallas, TX (United States), 6-12 Aug 1992; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
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WEAK INTERACTIONS
BOUND STATE
COSMOLOGY
GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION
VACUUM STATES
W MINUS BOSONS
W PLUS BOSONS
Z NEUTRAL BOSONS
BASIC INTERACTIONS
BOSONS
COMPOSITE MODELS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
FIELD THEORIES
FUNCTIONS
INTERACTIONS
INTERMEDIATE BOSONS
INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PARTICLE MODELS
QUARK MODEL
UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES
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