Electroweak-Skyrmion as Topological Dark Matter

Abstract

We show the existence of a nontrivial topological configuration of the Higgs field in the Standard Model with the Skyrme term. It is shown that the current upper bound of the mass of the topological object is about 34 TeV. We discuss the impact of the existence of the topological object on cosmology.

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures; v2: version published in JHEP