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Charged Vacuum Condensate Near a Superconducting Cosmic String

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-25 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A charged superconductiong cosmic string produces an extremely large electric field in its vicinity. This leads to vacuum instability and to the formation of a charged vacuum condensate which screens the electric charge of the string. We analyze the structure of this condensate using the Thomas-Fermi method.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9902135,
  title  = {Charged Vacuum Condensate Near a Superconducting Cosmic String},
  author = {J. R. S. Nascimento and Inyong Cho and Alexander Vilenkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9902135},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 Pages, 4 Figures, Revtex

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