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How Efficient Is The Langacker-Pi Mechanism of Monopole Annihilation?

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arxiv hep-ph/9203209 v1 pith:Q34RE4TK submitted 1992-03-11 hep-ph

How Efficient Is The Langacker-Pi Mechanism of Monopole Annihilation?

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keywords annihilationmonopoleefficientlangacker-pimechanismaharonov-bohmapproxbroken
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We investigate the dynamics of monopole annihilation by the Langacker-Pi mechanism. We find taht considerations of causality, flux-tube energetics and the friction from Aharonov-Bohm scatteering suggest that the monopole annihilation is most efficient if electromagnetism is spontaneously broken at the lowest temperature ($T_{em} \approx 10^6 GeV$) consistent with not having the monopoles dominate the energy density of the universe.

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