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CLNS–92/1162 CTP–2160 September 1992 2 9 9 1 Eluding the No-Hair Conjecture: v Black Holes in Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories o N 4 2 Brian R. Greene† , Samir D. Mathur♭ and Christopher M. O’Neill† v 7 †Laboratory of Nuclear Studies 0 0 Cornell University 1 1 Ithaca, NY 14853 2 9 ♭ / Center for Theoretical Physics h t Massachusetts Institute of Technology - p Cambridge, MA 02139 e h : v i X r a Abstract We study regular and black hole solutions to the coupled classical Einstein–Yang-Mills– Higgs system. It has long been thought that black hole solutions in the spontaneously broken phase of such a theory could have no nontrivial field structure outside of the horizon. We first show that the standard black hole no-hair theorem underlying this belief, although true in the abelian setting, does not necessarily extend to the non-abelian case. This indicates the possibility of solutions with non-trivial gauge and Higgs configurations decaying expo- nentially outside the horizon. We then find such solutions by numerical integration of the classical equations for the case of SU (2) coupled to a Higgs doublet (the standard model less hypercharge). As a prelude to this work we als