Electroweak topology and cosmological implications

by Tanmay Vachaspati (Frankfurt U.)

Wednesday 20 Sept 2023, 11:30 → 12:30 Europe/Zurich

4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

The topology of the standard electroweak model predicts confined magnetic monopoles whose creation and subsequent annihilation can lead to the production of a cosmological magnetic field during electroweak symmetry breaking.