Are nontopological strings produced at the electroweak phase transition?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2166-2169

  Nagasawa, Michiyasu ^a   Yokoyama, Jun’ichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0037842989     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.2166     Document Type: Article

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