Finite Energy Electroweak Monopoles

TL;DR

This paper introduces finite energy electroweak monopole and dyon solutions with fixed size at the electroweak scale, demonstrating their potential existence at accessible energy levels.

Contribution

The authors regularize existing solutions to produce finite energy monopoles and dyons within the Weinberg-Salam model, revealing their possible lower mass scale.

Findings

Finite energy monopole solutions with electroweak scale size

Existence of electroweak monopoles with masses below grand unification scale

Regularization method applied to Cho-Maison solutions

Abstract

We present finite energy analytic monopole and dyon solutions whose size is fixed by the electroweak scale. The new solutions are obtained by regularizing the recent Cho-Maison solutions of the Weinberg-Salam model. Our result shows that genuine electroweak monopole and dyon could exist whose mass scale is much smaller than the grand unification scale.