Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-09-07
JCAP 0604 (2006) 005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
27 pages, 5 figures, added many comments and 3 figures, accepted for publication in JCAP
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2006/04/005
Cosmic strings have gained a great interest, since they are formed in a large class of brane inflationary models. The most interesting story is that cosmic strings in brane models are distinguished in future cosmological observations. If the strings in brane models are branes or superstrings that can move along compactified space, and also if there are degenerated vacua along the compactified space, kinks interpolate between degenerated vacua become ``beads'' on the strings. In this case, strings turn into necklaces. In the case that the compact manifold in not simply connected, a string loop that winds around a nontrivial circle is stable due to the topological reason. Since the existence of the (quasi-)degenerated vacua and the nontrivial circle is a common feature of the brane models, it is important to study cosmological constraints on the cosmic necklaces and the stable winding states. In this paper, we consider dark matter production from loops of the cosmic necklaces. Our result suggests that necklaces can put stringent bound on certain kinds of brane models.
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