LARGE LEPTON NUMBER OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE FATE OF TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS

Authors
BAJC B RIOTTO A SENJANOVIC G
Citation
B. Bajc et al., LARGE LEPTON NUMBER OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE FATE OF TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS, Physical review letters, 81(7), 1998, pp. 1355-1358
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
81
Issue
7
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1355 - 1358
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)81:7<1355:LLNOTU>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
We show that the monopole problem in grand unified theories as well as the domain wall problem may be easily solved if the lepton number asy mmetry in the Universe is large enough.