Duality and dual confinement of monopoles in SU(2) gauge theory with two scalars

by Mr Chandrasekhar Chatterjee (S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata)

Thursday 15 Oct 2009, 14:30 → 15:30 Asia/Kolkata

AG-69 (Colaba Campus)

We construct, in an SU(2) gauge theory with two scalar fields, flux strings with monopoles attached at the ends. One scalar breaks SU(2) to U(1) and produces monopoles, the other then breaks the U(1) and produces strings. Dualizing, we write the theory in terms of effective string variables and show that the flux in the string is exactly saturated by the monopoles at the ends.