Particlelike distributions of the Higgs field nonminimally coupled to gravity

Understand

When the Higgs field is nonminimally coupled to gravity, there exists a family of spherically symmetric particlelike solutions to the field equations.

• These monopoles are the only globally regular and asymptotically flat distributions with finite energy of the Higgs field around compact objects.
• Moreover, spontaneous scalarization is strongly amplified for specific values of their mass and compactness.