Perturbed electroweak strings and fermion zero modes

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00158-7MaRDI QIDQ1913532zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hong Liu, Tanmay Vachaspati

Publication date 15 May 1996

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9511216

zbMATH Keywords

fermionic vacuum instabilityquark zero modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: The effect of perturbations of electroweak strings on quark zero modes is studied in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions. As first discovered by Naculich, it is found that the bosonic perturbations that destabilize the string give a mass to the zero modes and also lift their degeneracy. The effect of the zero modes on the stability of the string is discussed qualitatively and we argue that the fermionic vacuum instability found by Naculich should lead to a distortion of the bosonic string but not be responsible for decay.

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