BPS Alice strings

Chandrasekhar Chatterjee; Muneto Nitta

doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2017)046

BPS Alice strings

Chandrasekhar Chatterjee, Muneto Nitta

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Abstract

When a charged particle encircles around an Alice string, it changes the sign of the electric charge. In this paper we find a BPS-saturated Alice string in U(1)×SO(3) gauge theory with charged complex scalar fields belonging to the vector representation. After performing BPS completion we solve the BPS equations numerically. We further embed the Alice string into an N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theory to show that it is half BPS.

Original language	English
Article number	46
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2017
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)046
Publication status	Published - 2017 Sep 1

Keywords

Gauge Symmetry
Solitons Monopoles and Instantons
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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