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Fireballs from Superconducting Cosmic Strings

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-01-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Thermalized fireballs should be created by cusp events on superconducting cosmic strings. This simple notion allows to reliably estimate particle emission from the cusps in a given background magnetic field. With plausible assumptions about intergalactic magnetic fields, the cusp events can produce observable fluxes of high-energy photons and neutrinos with unique signatures.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.05396,
  title  = {Fireballs from Superconducting Cosmic Strings},
  author = {Andrei Gruzinov and Alexander Vilenkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05396},
  year   = {2017}
}

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15 pages

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