Birefringent Electroweak Textures

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1999-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9908282v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys. A17 (2002) 1953-1964

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

10 pages

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217751X02010583

The behaviour of electromagnetic waves propagating through an electroweak homilia string network is examined. This string network is topologically stable as a cosmic texture, and is characterized by the spatial variation of the isospin rotation of the Higgs field. As a consequence the photon field couples to the intermediate vector bosons, producing a finite range electromagnetic field. It is found that the propagation speed of the photon depends on its polarization vector, whence an homilia string network acts as a birefringent medium. We estimate the birefringent scale for this texture and show that it depends on the frequency of the electromagnetic wave and the length scale of the homilia string network.

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