Instabilities of electroweak strings

1995/05/22 by Michael Goodband, M. Goodband, Mark Hindmarsh +1 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)01198-y

published as Phys.Lett. B363 (1995) 58-64 · Latex, 11 pages, 1 uuencoded figure

arxiv created 1995/05/22 · openalex publication_date 1995/11/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We investigate the instabilities of low winding number electroweak strings using standard numerical techniques of linear algebra. For strings of unit winding we are able to confirm and extend existing calculations of the unstable region in the (m_H/m_W,sin²θ_W) plane. For strings of higher winding number we map the unstable regions for the various decay modes.

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