Cosmic String Loops, Large and Small
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We extend our earlier model of the small scale structure of cosmic string networks through an improved treatment of the separation of long and short scales. We find that the production of small loops (at the gravitational radiation scale) is a robust feature of string networks, in addition to a population of loops near the horizon scale. We obtain quantitative agreement with the scaling of loop production functions as found in simulations by two groups.
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@article{arxiv.0711.0994,
title = {Cosmic String Loops, Large and Small},
author = {Florian Dubath and Joseph Polchinski and Jorge V. Rocha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.0994},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 jpg figures. v2: reference moved, note added