  The existence of a magnetic monopole, if it exists, remains elusive.
Experimental searches have been carried out and are continuing in this quest.
Of great uncertainty is the mass of the monopole which is model-dependent and
ranging from some Grand Unified scale to the electroweak scale. In this paper,
we propose a model where topologically stable, finite-energy monopoles {\em
\`{a} la} 't Hooft-Polyakov could exist with a mass proportional to the
electroweak scale. This comes about in a model of neutrino masses where
right-handed neutrinos are {\em non-sterile} whose electroweak-scale Majorana
masses are obtained by the coupling to a complex {\em triplet} Higgs field.
Custodial symmetry which insures $M_W=M_Z \cos \theta_W$ requires the
introduction of another triplet Higgs field but {\em real} this time. It is
this {\em real Higgs triplet} that is at the core of our proposal.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology