Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons

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Main Authors: Garcia, Isabel Garcia, Kongsore, Marius, Van Tilburg, Ken
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Published: 2025
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author Garcia, Isabel Garcia
Kongsore, Marius
Van Tilburg, Ken
author_facet Garcia, Isabel Garcia
Kongsore, Marius
Van Tilburg, Ken
contents We construct Abelian gauge field configurations that carry non-zero instanton number. Each such "Abelian instanton" is generated by a closed magnetic worldline in four-dimensional Euclidean space, provided the Abelian gauge field has non-trivial winding along the closed worldline. The resulting field configuration corresponds to a Euclidean dyon loop featuring non-zero instanton number. We embed these dyon loops in a UV-complete theory using the Georgi-Glashow model and show that the full instanton charge is borne entirely by the unbroken $U(1)$ sector. In this same model, using a numerical relaxation procedure, we show that Euclidean dyon loops are a continuous deformation of small BPST instantons.
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spellingShingle Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons
Garcia, Isabel Garcia
Kongsore, Marius
Van Tilburg, Ken
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We construct Abelian gauge field configurations that carry non-zero instanton number. Each such "Abelian instanton" is generated by a closed magnetic worldline in four-dimensional Euclidean space, provided the Abelian gauge field has non-trivial winding along the closed worldline. The resulting field configuration corresponds to a Euclidean dyon loop featuring non-zero instanton number. We embed these dyon loops in a UV-complete theory using the Georgi-Glashow model and show that the full instanton charge is borne entirely by the unbroken $U(1)$ sector. In this same model, using a numerical relaxation procedure, we show that Euclidean dyon loops are a continuous deformation of small BPST instantons.
title Dyon Loops and Abelian Instantons
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14867