The ′T Hooft-Polyakov monopole near the Prasad-Sommerfield limit

✍ Scribed by Carl L Gardner

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 791 KB
• Volume: 146
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(83)90054-4

✦ Synopsis

A perturbative classical monopole solution for the SO(3) gauge theory is constructed in the limit of small but non-vanishing Higgs potential. This corresponds to the limit $/2Mi. = 1 Q 1, where ,u equals the mass of the scalar particle and M, equals the mass of the intermediate vector particles. The monopole solution and mass are found to involve non-analytic functions of A: /;i and I In 1. The monopole mass M, is calculated to order .u2/M, as * This work is supported in part through funds provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under contract DE-AC02-76ER03069.