Semilocal and electroweak strings
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In this paper, a class of non-topological defects in the standard electroweak model and their implications are discussed, and the potential relevance to future particle accelerator experiments and to baryon number violating processes is considered.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2000-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 327 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Electroweak interaction & Technicolor.read more
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Magnetic Fields in the Early Universe
Dario Grasso,H. Rubinstein +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss magnetic fields in the early universe, their origin, their possible detection, and their limits and values today and at early times, and discuss the possible detection of magnetic fields.
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Vortices, instantons and branes
Amihay Hanany,David Tong +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the moduli space of vortices and instantons in non-commutative Yang-Mills-Higgs theories has been studied and a D-brane construction is presented in which the dynamics of Vortices is described by the Higgs branch of a gauge theory with 4 supercharges.
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Nonabelian superconductors: vortices and confinement in N=2 SQCD
Roberto Auzzi,Stefano Bolognesi,Jarah Evslin,Jarah Evslin,Kenichi Konishi,Kenichi Konishi,Kenichi Konishi,Alexei Yung,Alexei Yung +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis is given of SQCD with gauge group deformed by a small adjoint chiral multiplet mass, which is responsible for the confinement of (nonabelian) magnetic monopoles.
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Solitons in the Higgs phase: the moduli matrix approach
TL;DR: In this article, the moduli spaces of kinks and vortices, which are the only elementary solitons in the Higgs phase, are found in terms of the modulus matrix.
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Vortex strings and four-dimensional gauge dynamics
Amihay Hanany,David Tong +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the low-energy quantum dynamics of vortex strings in the Higgs phase of = 2 supersymmetric QCD were studied, and the exact BPS spectrum of the stretched string was shown to coincide with the bimodal spectrum of four-dimensional parent gauge theory, which provided a physical explanation for an observation by Dorey relating the quantum spectra of theories in two and four dimensions.
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Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of topological defects in the early universe and the evolution of string fields and their relationship with the structure formation of strings, including superconducting and global strings.
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Cosmological Experiments in Superfluid Helium
TL;DR: In this article, an analogy between cosmological strings and vortex lines in the superfluid was discussed, and a cryogenic experiment was conducted to test key elements of the cosmology scenario for string formation.
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Aspects of Symmetry
Sidney Coleman,Sam Treiman +1 more
TL;DR: The review lectures on theoretical high energy physics have few rivals for clarity of exposition and depth of insight as discussed by the authors, and have been widely used as introductions to topics at the frontiers of research.