Intercommutation of Semilocal Strings and Skyrmions

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dc.creatorLaguna, Pablo
dc.creatorNatchu, Vishnu
dc.creatorMatzner, Richard A.
dc.creatorVachaspati, Tanmay
dc.date2006-04-24
dc.date2006-04-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:25:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:25:57Z
dc.descriptionWe study the intercommuting of semilocal strings and Skyrmions, for a wide range of internal parameters, velocities and intersection angles by numerically evolving the equations of motion. We find that the collisions of strings and strings, strings and Skyrmions, and Skyrmions and Skyrmions, all lead to intercommuting for a wide range of parameters. Even the collisions of unstable Skyrmions and strings leads to intercommuting, demonstrating that the phenomenon of intercommuting is very robust, extending to dissimilar field configurations that are not stationary solutions. Even more remarkably, at least for the semilocal U(2) formulation considered here, all intercommutations trigger a reversion to U(1) Nielsen-Olesen strings.
dc.description4 pages, 4 figures. Fixed typos, added references
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0604177
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0604177
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett.98:041602,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.041602
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/176713
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleIntercommutation of Semilocal Strings and Skyrmions
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