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Dark monopoles and SL(2, ℤ) duality

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  • volume 2018, Article number: 123 (2018)
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We explore kinetic mixing between two Abelian gauge theories that have both electric and magnetic charges. When one of the photons becomes massive, novel effects arise in the low-energy effective theory, including the failure of Dirac charge quantization as particles from one sector obtain parametrically small couplings to the photon of the other. We maintain a manifest SL(2, ℤ) duality throughout our analysis, which is the diagonal subgroup of the dualities of the two un-mixed gauge theories.

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Terning, J., Verhaaren, C.B. Dark monopoles and SL(2, ℤ) duality. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 123 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)123

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  • Received: 01 September 2018

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  • Duality in Gauge Field Theories
  • Solitons Monopoles and Instantons
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