TY - JOUR
T1 - Monopole catalysis of baryon decay
AU - Callan, Curtis Gove
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank E. Tomboulis and E. Witten for encouragement and many helpful discussions. I would also like to thank L.P.T.E.N.S. for hospitality during part of the writing of this paper. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant no. PHY. 80-19754.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1983/2/28
Y1 - 1983/2/28
N2 - In the presence of magnetic monopoles, the baryon-number-violating effecs of grand unified gauge theories are not suppressed by inverse powers of the unification mass. As a result, monopoles catalyse proton decay at rates typical of the strong interactions. This phenomenon is caused by boundary conditions which must be imposed on fermion fields at the monopole core. They mix quarks and leptons and cause the monopole to have indefinite baryon number. We present a simplified account of these phenomena as well as their implications for proton decay and monopole search experiments.
AB - In the presence of magnetic monopoles, the baryon-number-violating effecs of grand unified gauge theories are not suppressed by inverse powers of the unification mass. As a result, monopoles catalyse proton decay at rates typical of the strong interactions. This phenomenon is caused by boundary conditions which must be imposed on fermion fields at the monopole core. They mix quarks and leptons and cause the monopole to have indefinite baryon number. We present a simplified account of these phenomena as well as their implications for proton decay and monopole search experiments.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(83)90677-6
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(83)90677-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0007283298
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 212
SP - 391
EP - 400
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - 3
ER -