SO(10) COSMIC STRINGS AND SU(3)COLOR CHESHIRE CHARGE

被引:16
作者
BUCHER, M [1 ]
GOLDHABER, AS [1 ]
机构
[1] SUNY STONY BROOK,INST THEORET PHYS,STONY BROOK,NY 11794
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1994年 / 49卷 / 08期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.4167
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Certain cosmic strings that occur in GUT models such as SO(10) can carry a magnetic flux which acts nontrivially on objects carrying SU(3)color quantum numbers. We show that such strings are non-Abelian Alice strings carrying nonlocalizable colored ''Cheshire'' charge. We examine claims made in the literature that SO(10) strings can have a long-range, topological Aharonov-Bohm interaction that turns quarks into leptons, and observe that such a process is impossible. We also discuss flux-flux scattering using a multisheeted formalism.
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页码:4167 / 4181
页数:15
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