Galactic cosmic strings as sources of primary antiprotons

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Abstract
A possible signature of a class of superconducting cosmic strings trapped in the Milky Way plasma is the emission of low energy antiprotons due to baryon-number-violating processes on the string. We find the terrestrial flux and the energy spectrum of such antiprotons. Current observational bounds on the flux of low energy antiprotons place a lower bound on the string tension which is comparable to that given by the electroweak scale.

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