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EPL
Volume 100, Number 1, October 2012
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| Article Number | 11001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | The Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/100/11001 | |
| Published online | 16 October 2012 | |
Effective monopoles within thick branes
1 Departamento de Física e Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista - Av. Dr. Ariberto Pereira da Cunha, 333, Guaratinguetá, SP, Brazil
2 Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição, Universidade Federal do ABC - 09210-170, Santo André, SP, Brazil
Received: 6 June 2012
Accepted: 5 September 2012
The monopole mass is revealed to be considerably modified in the thick braneworld paradigm, and depends on the position of the monopole in the brane as well. Accordingly, the monopole radius continuously increases, leading to an unacceptable setting that can be circumvented when the brane thickness has an upper limit. Despite such peculiar behavior, the accrued quantum corrections —involving the classical monopole solution— are shown to be still under control. We analyze the monopole's peculiarities also taking into account the localization of the gauge fields. Furthermore, some additional analysis in the thick braneworld context and the similar behavior evinced by the topological string are investigated.
PACS: 11.25.−w – / 03.50.−z – / 14.80.Hv –
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