Is there a monopole problem?
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✦ hep-ph
astro-ph
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highmonopolesparametersrangetemperaturethereavoidingbehavior
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We investigate the high temperature behavior of SU(5) in its minimal version. We show that there exists a range of parameters of the Higgs potential for which the symmetry remains broken at high temperature, thus avoiding the phase transition that gives rise to the overproduction of monopoles . We also show that in such scenario the thermal production of monopoles can be suppressed in a wide range of parameters, keeping their number density below the cosmological limits.
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