Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-08-16
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
13 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
We study the evolution of abelian-Higgs string networks in numerical simulations. These are compared against a modified velocity-dependent one scale model for cosmic string network evolution. This incorporates the contributions of loop production, massive radiation and friction to the energy loss processes that are required for scaling evolution. We find that the loop distribution statistics in the simulations are consistent with the long-time scaling of the network being dominated by loop production. For an oscillating sinusoidal perturbation, we also demonstrate that the power emitted into massive radiation decays strongly with wavelength. Putting these observations together and extrapolating, we believe there is insufficient evidence to reject the the standard picture of string network evolution in favour of one where direct massive radiation is the dominant decay mechanism, a proposal which has attracted much recent interest.
Moore Johnnie N.
Shellard Paul. E. S.
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