Cosmic rays from decaying vortons

L Masperi, G Silva - Astroparticle Physics, 1998 - Elsevier
… the flux of cosmic rays from quantum decay of vortons formed at … The evaluation is based
on the tunneling of a chiral vorton, … It is seen that vortons which acquire superconductivity at a …

Can high energy cosmic rays be vortons?

S Bonazzola, P Peter - Astroparticle Physics, 1997 - Elsevier
… In a bound state model such as the one we propose here, the line part of the spectrum should
be initiated by radiative decay of the excited vortons, hence the primary should be a photon…

Cosmic vortons

RL Davis, EPS Shellard - Nuclear Physics B, 1989 - Elsevier
… fields in the vicinity of the vorton, and this may offer a new decay mode. A pure electric field
will … RL Davis, EPS Shellard / Cosmic vortons high energy cosmic rays. For N - 103 they are …

Dissipating cosmic vortons and baryogenesis

AC Davis, WB Perkins - Physics Letters B, 1997 - Elsevier
… We need to consider two cases: firstly the vortons may decay before they dominate the energy
density of the universe and we do not need to know the time scale for vorton decay since n…

Cosmic vortons and particle physics constraints

R Brandenberger, B Carter, AC Davis, M Trodden - Physical Review D, 1996 - APS
… This is convenient because the details of protovorton loop decay have not yet been adequately
… The final decay temperature Td is also absent from the quantitative formulas that we will …

Topological Defects in Cosmic Ray Showers

P PETER - Topological Defects In Cosmology, 1998 - books.google.com
… and either a free, decaying outgoing state (full vorton ionisation) or … on vortons, ie,
current-carrying cosmic string loops, for explaining the current problem of very high energy cosmic

How about vortons?

B Carter - 1995 - inspirehep.net
… line of reasonning, the decay lifetime for a vorton of the more … .,/mx a vorton would decay
much more rapidly than predicted … coupled vorton distribution might be as cosmic rays. In …

Hard component of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and vortons

L Masperi, M Orsaria - Astroparticle Physics, 2002 - Elsevier
… We now describe the energy spectrum of the flux given by the decay of a superheavy boson
emitted by the vorton and conjecture, because of the hadronization of the resulting quark, …

Extremely high energy cosmic rays from relic particle decays

M Birkel, S Sarkar - Astroparticle Physics, 1998 - Elsevier
… high energy cosmic rays beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff, for a decaying particle
… sector of supersymmetry breaking which decay through nonrenormalizable interactions. …

Irreducible cosmic production of relic vortons

P Auclair, P Peter, C Ringeval… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
… [11], potential dark matter and cosmic rays candidates [19, 30]. … Vortons: these are all
those proto-vortons which have decayed by gravitational radiation to become vortons. Hence …