Monopole Vacuum in Non-Abelian Theories

It is shown that, in the theory of interacting Yang -Mills fields and a Higgs field, there is a topological degeneracy of Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) monopoles and that there arises, in this case, a chromoelectric monopole characterized by a new topological variable that describes transitions between topological states of the monopole in the Minkowski space (in just the same way as an instanton describes such transitions in the Euclidean space). The limit of an infinitely large mass of the Higgs field at a finite density of the BPS monopole is considered as a model of the stable vacuum in the pure Yang-Mills theory. It is shown that, in QCD, such a monopole vacuum may lead to a rising potential, a topological confinement and an additional mass of the $\eta_0$ meson. The relationship between the result obtained here for the generating functional of perturbation theory and Faddeev-Popov integral is discussed

Analysis of the structural state formed in titanium at the final severe plastic deformation stage

The structural state of iodide titanium after deformation by drawing at 77 K, which is the final stage of severe plastic deformation (SPD), has been analyzed and estimated in this work. The SPD has been implemented by a sequential combination of deformation techniques (compression-squirting-extrusion-drawing) that provide different stress epures. The temperature dependence of the logarithmic damping decrement of torsional oscillations in the 77-250 K temperature range has been studied to give a physical interpretation of the nonmonotonic change in the strength of the iodide titanium after SPD and to compare the calculated strength with that obtained for low purity titaniu