Cosmological Production of Superheavy Magnetic Monopoles
Physical Review Letters · 1979 · 647 citations · 20 references
Such MonopolesAlternative CosmologyEngineeringPhysicsInflation (Cosmology)CosmologyNatural SciencesParticle PhysicsSuperheavy Magnetic MonopolesParticle CosmologyDark MatterEarly UniverseElementary Particle InteractionsHigh Energy Theory
Grand unified models of elementary particle interactions contain stable superheavy magnetic monopoles. The density of such monopoles in the early universe is estimated to be unacceptably large. Cosmological monopole production may be suppressed if the phase transition at the grand unification mass scale is strongly first order.
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