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The Fate of Cosmic String Zero Modes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-11-03 v1

Abstract

Cosmic strings in realistic particle physics models have fermion zero modes in the string core. Such zero modes change the underlying cosmology; for example, the string can carry a current. We consider the stability of fermion zero modes to interactions with particles in the surrounding plasma. We also consider cosmological constraints on such theories, particulary those with a chiral fermion zero mode, such as arises in a class of supersymmetric models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0005091,
  title  = {The Fate of Cosmic String Zero Modes},
  author = {Anne-Christine Davis and Stephen C. Davis and Warren B. Perkins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0005091},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

9 pages, uses sprocl.sty, presented at COSMO99 by A.C. Davis

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