Coloured Monopoles From Fractional Charges in OCD

Authors

A. P. Balachandran, Syracuse University
V. Parameswaran Nair, City College of New YorkFollow
C. G. Trahern, Syracuse University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1982

Abstract

In a recent paper, Slansky et al. have suggested that SU(3)c may be broken to SO(3) X Z, in order to explain the possible existence of fractionally charged states. We point out that there are low mass monopoles associated with such a symmetry breakdown and discuss their properties. Such states may be observable at LEP if not at PETRA energies.