Magnetic Charge as a ``Hidden'' Gauge Symmetry

Details Magnetic Charge as a ``Hidden'' Gauge Symmetry Magnetic Charge as a ``Hidden'' Gauge Symmetry

1997-01-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701044v1

Int.J.Theor.Phys. 34 (1995) 37-46

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

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A theory containing both electric and magnetic charges is formulated using two vector potentials, $A_{\mu}$ and $C_{\mu}$. This has the aesthetic advantage of treating electric and magnetic charges both as gauge charges, but it has the experimental disadvantage of introducing a second massless gauge boson (the ``magnetic'' photon) which is not observed. This problem is dealt with by using the Higgs mechanism to give a mass to one of the gauge bosons while the other remains massless. This effectively ``hides'' the magnetic charge, and the symmetry associated with it, when one is at an energy scale far enough removed from the scale of the symmetry breaking.

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