Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1993-07-22
Phys.Rev. D48 (1993) 5594-5627
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
61 pages, requires RevTex v3.0, SUSSEX-TH-93/3-4, IMPERIAL/TP/92-93/42
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.48.5594
We extend and develop our previous work on the evolution of a network of cosmic strings. The new treatment is based on an analysis of the probability distribution of the end-to-end distance of a randomly chosen segment of left-moving string of given length. The description involves three distinct length scales: $\xi$, related to the overall string density, $\bar\xi$, the persistence length along the string, and $\zeta$, describing the small-scale structure, which is an important feature of the numerical simulations that have been done of this problem. An evolution equation is derived describing how the distribution develops in time due to the combined effects of the universal expansion, of intercommuting and loop formation, and of gravitational radiation. With plausible assumptions about the unknown parameters in the model, we confirm the conclusions of our previous study, that if gravitational radiation and small-scale structure effects are neglected, the two dominant length scales both scale in proportion to the horizon size. When the extra effects are included, we find that while $\xi$ and $\bar\xi$ grow, $\zeta$ initially does not. Eventually, however, it does appear to scale, at a much lower level, due to the effects of gravitational back-reaction.
Austin Daren
Copeland Edmund J.
Kibble T. W. B.
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