Monopoles, topology of the Standard Model, and unification of interactions at Tev scale

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential unification of strong and electroweak interactions at TeV scale, predicting stable monopoles that could influence early universe phenomena and proposing a lattice model for their study.

Contribution

It introduces a lattice model to investigate topologically stable monopoles arising from unification at TeV scale, highlighting their possible cosmological significance.

Findings

Monopoles with masses around 40 TeV may form at TeV scale unification.

Monopoles could influence early universe dynamics and phase transitions.

A lattice model framework is proposed for further study of these monopoles.

Abstract

It is shown that unification of strong and Electroweak interactions at Tev scale may lead to appearance of topologically stable monopoles with masses of the order of 40 Tev. Those monopoles may play an important role in the early Universe, at finite temperature. They may even be condensed at high enough temperature. The lattice model for investigation of this phenomenon is presented.