Superconducting cosmic strings

EM Chudnovsky, GB Field, DN Spergel, A Vilenkin - Physical Review D, 1986 - APS
… In this paper we shall discussthe astrophysical effects of superconducting strings. The next
… We tentatively identify the thread as the immediate environs of a cosmic string. Its observed …

Dynamics of superconducting cosmic strings

DN Spergel, T Piran, J Goodman - Nuclear Physics B, 1987 - Elsevier
… for a superconducting string and derives the equations of motion for the string and its charge
carriers. A formula for the electromagnetic power emitted by the moving string is calculated …

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from superconducting cosmic strings

CT Hill, DN Schramm, TP Walker - Physical Review D, 1987 - APS
… we neglect red-shift effects) consider a single cosmic string of total luminosity Lo at sufhcient
range … loops of cosmic string. We assume that the superconducting cosmic strings have size …

Bosonic superconducting cosmic strings

CT Hill, HM Hodges, MS Turner - Physical Review D, 1988 - APS
… the question of which regions of parameter space (for the scalar potential) permit bosonic
superconducting cosmic strings; in Sec. III we study the dynamics of bosonic superconductivity; …

Gamma ray bursts from superconducting cosmic strings

V Berezinsky, B Hnatyk, A Vilenkin - Physical Review D, 2001 - APS
… cusps of superconducting cosmic strings naturally solves … Cosmic strings are linear defects
that could be formed at a symmetry breaking phase transition in the early universe 5. Strings

Emission of gravitational waves by superconducting cosmic strings

IY Rybak, L Sousa - … of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
superconducting cosmic strings. We demonstrate, by using a solvable model of transonic
strings, … Γ and the value of the current on cosmic strings. We conjecture that this relation should …

Cosmic sparks from superconducting strings

T Vachaspati - Physical Review Letters, 2008 - APS
strings in light of the recently discovered millisecond radio burst by Lorimer et al.. We find …
superconducting cosmic strings that carry currents $105 GeV. The superconducting string

Constraints on the spectral signatures of superconducting cosmic strings

B Cyr, J Chluba, SK Acharya - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… of a network of superconducting cosmic strings can be probed using … Superconducting
cosmic string models are typically … As we will discuss below, a cosmic string network generally …

Electromagnetic radiation from superconducting cosmic strings

A Vilenkin, T Vachaspati - Physical review letters, 1987 - APS
Cosmic strings are linear def'ects that could be … Strings predicted in some grand unified
models behave as superconducting wires. Such strings moving through magnetized cosmic

Cosmic strings and superstrings

EJ Copeland, TWB Kibble - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… superfluid or superconductor is cooled rapidly through its transition temperature. In §3 we
review the dynamics of cosmic strings, and in §4, we discuss how a network of cosmic strings, …