Dynamics of Confined Monopoles and Similarities with Confined Quarks

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In this work, we study the annihilation of a pair of `t Hooft-Polyakov monopoles due to confinement by a string.

• We analyze the regime in which the scales of monopoles and strings are comparable.
• We compute the spectrum of the emitted gravitational waves and find it to agree with the previously calculated point-like case for wavelengths longer than the system width and before the collision.
• However, we observe that in a head-on collision, monopoles are never re-created.