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What do electroweak vortex rings actually weigh?

Dan Zhu, Xurong Chen, Qingyue Zhang, Khai-Ming Wong

May 20, 2026

Electroweak vortex rings are stable topological configurations predicted by the Standard Model but never directly observed. By solving the field equations rigorously, the team pinned down their masses: around 18 and 27 TeV depending on internal structure. These energy scales define where experiments should hunt for these objects and reveal how repulsive forces and unusual current patterns naturally stabilize them.
Published as First mass determination of electroweak vortex rings in the Standard Model arXiv:2605.20791
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