Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: We formulate a local condition for a nontopological defect to be present. We apply it to electroweak strings and estimate the probability of their existence at the Ginzburg temperature. As a result we find strings long enough to serve for baryon-number generation are unlikely to be produced.
Source: Physical Review Letters
Authors: Michiyasu Nagasawa, Jun'ichi Yokoyama
Institutions: Kyoto University, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2073370337