N=1 Supersymmetric Cosmic Strings
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-30 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We investigate the microphysics of supersymmetric cosmic strings. In particular we focus on the vortices admitted by N=1 supersymmetric abelian Higgs models. We find the vortex solutions and demonstrate that the two simplest supersymmetric cosmic string models admit fermionic superconductivity. Further, by using supersymmetry transformations, we show how to solve for the fermion zero modes giving rise to string superconductivity in terms of the background string fields.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9702360,
title = {N=1 Supersymmetric Cosmic Strings},
author = {Stephen C. Davis and Anne-Christine Davis and Mark Trodden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9702360},
year = {2009}
}
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16 pages, RevTeX