Monopole-antimonopole bound states as a source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

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1999-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904315v1

Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 083001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, RevTeX, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.60.083001

The electromagnetic decay and final annihilation of magnetic monopole-antimonopole pairs formed in the early universe has been proposed as a possible mechanism to produce the highest energy cosmic rays. We show that for a monopole abundance saturating the Parker limit, the density of magnetic monopolonium formed is many orders of magnitude less than that required to explain the observed cosmic ray flux. We then propose a different scenario in which the monopoles and antimonopoles are connected by strings formed at a low energy phase transition (~ 100 GeV). The bound states decay by gravitational radiation, with lifetimes comparable with the age of the universe. This mechanism avoids the problems of the standard monopolonium scenario, since the binding of monopoles and antimonopoles is perfectly efficient.

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