Are nontopological strings produced at the electroweak phase transition?
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✦ hep-ph
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stringselectroweaknontopologicalproducedapplybaryon-numberconditiondefect
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We formulate a local condition for a nontopological defect to be present. We apply it for electroweak strings and estimate the probability of their existence at the Ginzburg temperature. As a result we find strings long enough to serve for baryon-number generation are unlikely to be produced.
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