Anomalous Abelian solitons

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2007.03.012MaRDI QIDQ2369807zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Schmid, M. Shaposhnikov

Publication date 21 June 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0702101

zbMATH Keywords

chiral anomalygauge theorysolitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

Abstract: The chiral Abelian Higgs model contains an interesting class of solitons found by Rubakov and Tavkhelidze. These objects carry non-zero fermion number $N_F$ (or Chern-Simons number $N_{CS}$, what is the same because of the chiral anomaly) and are stable for sufficiently large $N_F$. In this paper we study the properties of these anomalous solitons. We find that their energy-versus-fermion-number ratio is given by $Esim{N}_{CS}^{3/4}$ or $Esim{N}_{CS}^{2/3}$ depending on the structure of the scalar potential. For the former case we demonstrate that there is a lower bound on the soliton energy, which reads $Egeqc{N}_{CS}^{3/4}$, where $c$ is some parameter expressed through the masses and coupling constants of the theory. We construct the anomalous solitons numerically accounting both for Higgs and gauge dynamics and show that they are not spherically symmetric. The thin wall approximation valid for macroscopic solutions with $N_{CS}gg1$ is discussed as well.

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