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ISRN High Energy Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 853692, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/853692
Onset of Magnetic Monopole-Antimonopole Condensation
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosohenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Received 9 January 2012; Accepted 16 February 2012
Academic Editors: A. Belhaj, A. Konechny, and A. Koshelev
Copyright © 2012 Ralf Hofmann. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We determine the critical strength of the effective electric coupling for the onset of Bose condensation of stable magnetic monopoles and antimonopoles in SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics. Two scenarios are considered: infinitely fast and infinitely slow downward approaches of the critical temperature. Our results support the claim that the first lepton family and the weak interactions emerge from pure SU(2) gauge dynamics of scale MeV.