Published February 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Numerical and asymptotic analysis of the 't Hooft-Polyakov magnetic monopole

  • 1. Laboratoire de Mathemathiques et Physique Theorique, CNRS UMR6083, Universite de Tours, Parc de Grandmont 37200 Tours (France)
  • 2. Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, P.O. Box 26, Rehovot 76100 (Israel)

Description

A high precision numerical analysis of the static, spherically symmetric SU(2) magnetic monopole equations is carried out. Using multishooting and multidomain spectral methods, the mass of the monopole is obtained rather precisely as a function of β=MH/MW for a large β-interval (MH and MW denote the mass of the Higgs and gauge field, respectively). The numerical results necessitated the reexamination and subsequent correction of a previous asymptotic analysis of the monopole mass in the literature for β<<1

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
71
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 035002-035002.10
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2005 The American Physical Society