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How to simulate global cosmic strings with large string tension

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-11-01 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Global string networks may be relevant in axion production in the early Universe, as well as other cosmological scenarios. Such networks contain a large hierarchy of scales between the string core scale and the Hubble scale, log(f/H) around 70, which influences the network dynamics by giving the strings large tensions T = pi f^2 log(f/H). We present a new numerical approach to simulate such global string networks, capturing the tension without an exponentially large lattice.

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@article{arxiv.1707.05566,
  title  = {How to simulate global cosmic strings with large string tension},
  author = {Vincent B. Klaer and Guy D. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05566},
  year   = {2017}
}

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22 pages including 5 figures

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