Cosmic strings and ultra-high energy cosmic rays

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Dec 1989

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Physical Review D (Particles and Fields), Volume 40, Issue 12, 15 December 1989, pp.3968-3975

Mathematics

48

Cosmic Rays, Energetic Particles, Proton Flux Density, String Theory, Broken Symmetry, Cosmology, Cusps (Mathematics), Decay, Particle Emission, Phase Transformations, Protons

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The flux is calculated of ultrahigh energy protons due to the process of cusp evaporation from cosmic string loops. For the standard value of the dimensionless cosmic string parameter epsilon is identical to Gmu approx. = 10-6, the flux is several orders of magnitude below the observed cosmic ray flux of ultrahigh energy protons. However, the flux at any energy initially increases as the value of epsilon is decreased. This at first suggests that there may be a lower limit on the value of epsilon, which would imply a lower limit on the temperature of a cosmic string forming phase transition in the early universe. However, the calculation shows that this is not the case -- the particle flux at any energy reaches its highest value at epsilon approx. = 10-15 and it then decreases for further decrease of the value of epsilon. This is due to the fact that for too small values of epsilon (less than 10-15), the energy loss of the loops through the cusp evaporation process itself (rather than gravitational energy loss of the loops) becomes the dominant factor that controls the behavior of the number density of the loops at the relevant times of emission of the particles. The highest flux at any energy remains at least four orders of magnitude below the observed flux. There is thus no lower limit on epsilon.

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