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Cosmological effects of decaying cosmic string loops with TeV scale width

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-19 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

In supersymmetric theories, cosmic strings produced in the early Universe often have a width of TeV scale, while the tension is much larger. In a scaling regime, an infinite cosmic string releases significant fraction of its energy in the form of string loops. These thick string loops lose their energies efficiently by particle emissions, and hence it may have effects on cosmological observations. We study cosmological implications of string loops with TeV scale width in detail and derive constraints on the tension of the string. Implications on future gravitational wave detectors are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1105.4383,
  title  = {Cosmological effects of decaying cosmic string loops with TeV scale width},
  author = {Masahiro Kawasaki and Koichi Miyamoto and Kazunori Nakayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4383},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages, 6 figures

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