High Q BPS Monopole Bags are Urchins

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2011-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/1111.3891v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LaTeX, 25 pages, 4 figures

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It has been known for 30 years that 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles of charge Q greater than one cannot be spherically symmetric. 5 years ago, Bolognesi conjectured that, at some point in their moduli space, BPS monopoles can become approximately spherically symmetric in the high Q limit. In this note we determine the sense in which this conjecture is correct. We consider an SU(2) gauge theory with an adjoint scalar field, and numerically find configurations with Q units of magnetic charge and a mass which is roughly linear in Q, for example in the case Q=81 we present a configuration whose energy exceeds the BPS bound by about 54 percent. These approximate solutions are constructed by gluing together Q cones, each of which contains a single unit of magnetic charge. In each cone, the energy is largest in the core, and so a constant energy density surface contains Q peaks and thus resembles a sea urchin. We comment on some relations between a non-BPS cousin of these solutions and the dark matter halos of dwarf spherical galaxies.

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