1995/07/19 by Shion Kono, Kono, Shion, Stephen Naculich +1
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9507350
9 pages, Latex, 1 figure (uuencoded), to appear in Proc. of PASCOS/HOPKINS 1995, held in Baltimore, MD, March 22-25, 1995
arxiv created 1995/07/19 · openalex publication_date 1995/07/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Z-strings in the Weinberg-Salam model including fermions are unstable for all values of the parameters. The cause of this instability is the fermion vacuum energy in the Z-string background. Z-strings with non-zero fermion densities, however, may still be stable.