Global vs local cosmic strings from pseudo-anomalous U(1)

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3 July 1998

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9807233

Abstract

We study the structure of cosmic strings produced at the breaking of an anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry present in many superstring compactification models. We show that their coupling with the axion necessary in order to cancel the anomalies does not prevent them from being local, even though their energy per unit length is found to diverge logarithmically. We discuss the formation of such strings and the phenomenological constraints that apply to their parameters.

Keywords

PSEUDO ANOMALOUS
SYMMETRY PRESENT
GLOBAL VS LOCAL
COSMIC STRINGS
LOCAL COSMIC
UNIT LENGTH
ANOMALIES
STRINGS
PREVENT

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Version 1, 1998-07-03, ArXiv
Version 1, 1999-01-25, ArXiv (Unconfirmed version)
Published version: Physics Letters B, 441 (1-4), 52.

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