2006/11/06 by Herman Verlinde, Verlinde, Herman
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0611069
18 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2006/11/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
String compactifications with D-branes may exhibit regular magnetic monopole solutions, whose presence does not rely on broken non-abelian gauge symmetry. These stringy monopoles exist on interesting metastable brane configurations, such as anti-D3 branes inside a flux compactification or D5-branes wrapping 2-cycles that are locally stable but globally trivial. In brane realizations of SM-like gauge theories, the monopoles carry one unit of magnetic hypercharge. Their mass can range from the string scale down to the multi-TeV regime.