Fermions Destabilize Electroweak Strings

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26 January 1995

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

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.

Keywords

DESTABILIZE ELECTROWEAK
FERMIONS DESTABILIZE
ELECTROWEAK STRINGS
INSTABILITY
Z STRINGS
VACUUM

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Published version: Physical Review Letters, 75 (6), 998.

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