Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-10-15
Phys.Rev.D61:061301,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
10 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.061301
We evolve the network of global strings in the matter-dominated universe by means of numerical simulations. The existence of the scaling solution is confirmed as in the radiation-dominated universe but the scaling parameter $\xi$ takes a slightly smaller value, $\xi \simeq 0.6 \pm 0.1$, which is defined as $\xi = \rho_{s} t^{2} / \mu$ with $\rho_{s}$ the energy density of global strings and $\mu$ the string tension per unit length. The change of $\xi$ from the radiation to the matter-dominated universe is consistent with that obtained by Albrecht and Turok by use of the one-scale model. We also study the loop distribution function and find that it can be well fitted with that predicted by the one-scale model, where the number density $n_{l}(t)$ of the loop with the length $l$ is given by $n_{l}(t) = \nu/[t^2 (l + \kappa t)^2]$ with $\nu \sim 0.040$ and $\kappa \sim 0.48$. Thus, the evolution of the global string network in the matter-dominated universe can be well described by the one-scale model as in the radiation-dominated universe.
Kawasaki Masahiro
Yamaguchi Masahide
Yokoyama Jun'ichi
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