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Electroweak Strings, Zero Modes and Baryon Number

Tanmay Vachaspati

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9411348

Abstract

The Dirac equations for leptons and quarks in the background of an electroweak Z-string have zero mode solutions. If two loops of electroweak string are linked, the zero modes on one of the loops interacts with the other loop via an Aharanov-Bohm interaction. The effects of this interaction are briefly discussed and it is shown that the fermions induce a baryon number on linked loops of Z-string. (Submitted to Proceedings of "Trends in Astrophysics" Conference, Stockholm, 1994.)

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