(Meta)stable closed vortices in 3+1 dimensional gauge theories with an extended Higgs sector

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2000, Pages

  Virtanen, Sami ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Evotec BioSystems AG   (Estonia)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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EID: 17044383316     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.61.085020     Document Type: Article

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