Analytical self-dual solutions in a nonstandard Yang-Mills-Higgs scenario

We have found analytical self-dual solutions within the generalized Yang-Mills-Higgs model introduced in R. Casana et al. (2012) [1]. Such solutions are magnetic monopoles satisfying Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) equations and usual finite energy boundary conditions. Moreover, the new solutions are classified in two different types according to their capability of recovering (or not) the usual 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole. Finally, we compare the profiles of the solutions we found with the standard ones, from which we comment about the main features exhibited by the new configurations. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.