Published November 5, 1979 | Version v1
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Cosmological production of superheavy magnetic monopoles

Creators

  • 1. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Description

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

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
43
Journal Issue
19
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
1365-1368
ISSN
0031-9007

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
11519888
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ANNIHILATION; BOUND STATE; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; COULOMB FIELD; MAGNETIC MONOPOLES; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; RENORMALIZATION; SPIN; SU-2 GROUPS; SU-3 GROUPS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; U-1 GROUPS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; INTERACTIONS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOPOLES; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS