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Stabilization of semilocal strings by dark scalar condensates
Abstract : Semilocal and electroweak strings are well known to be unstable against unwinding by the condensation of the second Higgs component in their cores. A large class of current models of dark matter contains dark scalar fields coupled to the Higgs sector of the Standard Model (Higgs portal) and/or dark U(1) gauge fields. It is shown that Higgs-portal-type couplings and a gauge kinetic mixing term of the dark U(1) gauge field have a significant stabilizing effect on semilocal strings in the “visible” sector.
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01554470
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Submitted on : Monday, July 3, 2017 - 5:57:47 PM
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Contributor : Inspire Hep <>
Submitted on : Monday, July 3, 2017 - 5:57:47 PM
Last modification on : Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - 8:35:05 PM
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