BPS Magnetic Monopole Bags

dc.creatorLee, Ki-Myeong
dc.creatorWeinberg, Erick J.
dc.date2008-10-28
dc.date2009-01-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:46:32Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:46:32Z
dc.descriptionWe 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 $R_{\rm cr} \sim N/v$, 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 $R_{\rm cr}$. 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.
dc.description19 pages, 1 figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4962
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4962
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D79:025013,2009
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.79.025013
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/221414
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleBPS Magnetic Monopole Bags
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