Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1995-03-29
Mod.Phys.Lett. A10 (1995) 1065-1072
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
6 pages, plain latex, no figures, submitted to Mod. Phys. Lett. A as "Electroweak Vortices and Gauge Equivalence".
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217732395001186
Vortex configurations in the electroweak gauge theory are investigated. Two gauge-inequivalent solutions of the field equations, the Z and W vortices, have previously been found. They correspond to embeddings of the abelian Nielsen-Olesen vortex solution into a U(1) subgroup of SU(2)xU(1). It is shown here that any electroweak vortex solution can be mapped into a solution of the same energy with a vanishing upper component of the Higgs field. The correspondence is a gauge equivalence for all vortex solutions except those for which the winding numbers of the upper and lower Higgs components add to zero. This class of solutions, which includes the W vortex, instead corresponds to a singular solution in the one-component gauge. The results, combined with numerical investigations, provide an argument against the existence of other vortex solutions in the gauge-Higgs sector of the Standard Model.
MacDowell Samuel W.
Tornkvist Ola
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