Speaker
Description
I will argue that topologically stable particle-like objects, which can be described as electroweak monopoles, are the inevitable prediction of the minimal Standard Model. Furthermore, their existence provides new CP violating phases and new baryon number violating interactions in the Standard Model. These monopoles must have been produced non-thermally during the electroweak phase transition driving the phase transition out-of-equilibrium and generating cosmological asymmetry between matter and antimatter.
I will describe prospects of the monopole detection using direct Cherenkov light from relativistic monopoles or the Cherenkov light from secondary particles emitted in baryon number violating processes along the trajectory of slowly moving monopoles.
