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Screwed superconducting cosmic strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-19 v1

Abstract

We show that it is possible to build up a consistent model describing a superconducting cosmic string (SCS) endowed with torsion. A full string solution is obtained by matching the internal and the external solutions. We derive the deficit angle, the geodesics of and the gravitational force on a test-particle moving under the action of this screwed SCS. A couple of potentially observable astrophysical phenomena are highlighted: the dynamics of compact objects orbiting torsioned SCS and the accretion of matter onto it.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0202105,
  title  = {Screwed superconducting cosmic strings},
  author = {C. N. Ferreira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0202105},
  year   = {2011}
}

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19 pages, LaTeX