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The Price of an Electroweak Monopole

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In a recent paper, Cho, Kim and Yoon (CKY) have proposed a version of the SU(2) $\times$ U(1) Standard Model with finite-energy monopole and dyon solutions. The CKY model postulates that the effective U(1) gauge coupling $\to \infty$ very rapidly as the Englert-Brout-Higgs vacuum expectation value $\to 0$, but in a way that is incompatible with LHC measurements of the Higgs boson $H \to \gamma \gamma$ decay rate. We construct generalizations of the CKY model that are compatible with the $H \to \gamma \gamma$ constraint, and calculate the corresponding values of the monopole and dyon masses. We find that the monopole mass could be $< 5.5$ TeV, so that it could be pair-produced at the LHC and accessible to the MoEDAL experiment.

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Generalizations and UV completions of Cho-Maison monopole

hep-ph · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Cho-Maison-like monopoles exist in many gauge theories with electroweak-type symmetry breaking and emerge as effective low-energy descriptions from larger 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles in UV-complete models like Pati-Salam.

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