TY - JOUR
T1 - Superheavy monopoles and baryon asymmetry
AU - Nussinov, S.
PY - 1982/4/1
Y1 - 1982/4/1
N2 - It is argued that 't Hooft-Polykov monopoles are highly composite and contain effectively 1/α gauge and Higgs quanta. Thus mm̄ annihilation will yield on the average n ̄H ≈ n ̄rmW ≈ 1/α. In particular superheavy monopoles can annihilation into the SU(5) Higgs leptoquarks. The subsequent decay of the latter can serve as a source of the observed baryon asymmetry. Some comments are made in connection with the grand monopole problem and the detectability of such monopoles.
AB - It is argued that 't Hooft-Polykov monopoles are highly composite and contain effectively 1/α gauge and Higgs quanta. Thus mm̄ annihilation will yield on the average n ̄H ≈ n ̄rmW ≈ 1/α. In particular superheavy monopoles can annihilation into the SU(5) Higgs leptoquarks. The subsequent decay of the latter can serve as a source of the observed baryon asymmetry. Some comments are made in connection with the grand monopole problem and the detectability of such monopoles.
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U2 - 10.1016/0370-2693(82)91240-0
DO - 10.1016/0370-2693(82)91240-0
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AN - SCOPUS:0002331269
VL - 110
SP - 221
EP - 226
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
IS - 3-4
ER -