Numerical and asymptotic analysis of the ’ t Hooft - Polyakov magnetic monopole
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A high precision numerical analysis of the static, spherically symmetric SU (2) magnetic monopole equations is carried out. Using multi-shooting and multi-domain spectral methods , the mass of the monopole is obtained rather precisely as a function of β = M H /M W for a large β-interval (M H and M W denote the mass of the Higgs and gauge field respectively). The numerical results necessitated the reexamination and subsequent correction of a previous asymptotic analysis of the monopole mass in the literature for β ≪ 1.
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