Gamma Ray Bursts from Ordinary Cosmic Strings
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-09-01 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
We give an upper estimate for the number of gamma ray bursts from ordinary (non-superconducting) cosmic strings expected to be observed at terrestrial detectors. Assuming that cusp annihilation is the mechanism responsible for the bursts we consider strings arising at a GUT phase transition and compare our estimate with the recent BATSE results. Further we give a lower limit for the effective area of future detectors designed to detect the cosmic string induced flux of gamma ray bursts.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9302254,
title = {Gamma Ray Bursts from Ordinary Cosmic Strings},
author = {R. H. Brandenberger and A. T. Sornborger and M. Trodden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9302254},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
7 pages, uses Latex, Brown preprint BROWN-HET-896