Friday, 18 December 2015

standard model - Does the existence of Higgs imply the existence of Magnetic Monopoles?


I am aware that in theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking, Magnetic Monopoles can exist as topological solitons. Can the same be done with the Standard Model gauge group. I am familiar with the contents of 't Hooft's paper Magnetic Monopoles in Unified Gauge theories. But the analysis in that paper is done for the $\operatorname{SO}(3)$ gauge group.


Is there a similar analysis for the standard model gauge group? Does the discovery of Higgs particle imply the existence of magnetic monopoles as topological solitons, and magnetic charge being treated as a topological charge?




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