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D. Burke, A. Rebhan:
"Confined Monopoles";
Talk: Vienna Theory Lunch Club Seminar, Wien; 2009-03-10.

A basic introduction to magnetic monopoles will be presented. Magnetic monopoles in non-Abelian gauge theories broken to a non-Abelian subgroup have enjoyed renewed interest with a new emphasis on electromagnetic duality and the dual superconductor model for confinement. In order to study such objects at the quantum level supersymmetric models have been invaluable in trying to ascertain the key features which we may expect in a non-supersymmetric model while still having better control over the model. Here we will try to build up to describing such an N=2 SUSY model and discuss some of its intriguing aspects.

Monopoles, SUSY, Supersymmetry