Cosmological Production of Superheavy Magnetic Monopoles

1979/11/05 by John Preskill · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.43.1365

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Abstract

Grand unified models of elementary particle interactions contain stable superheavy magnetic monopoles. The density of such monopoles in the early universe is estimated to be unacceptably large. Cosmological monopole production may be suppressed if the phase transition at the grand unification mass scale is strongly first order.

Citations

• Fate of the false vacuum: Semiclassical theory
• Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories
• Unity of All Elementary-Particle Forces
• Symmetry breaking and scalar bosons
• Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

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