| Title: |
Cosmic (super)strings with a time-varying tension |
| Authors: |
Revello, Filippo; Villa, Gonzalo; Sub String Theory Cosmology and ElemPart; Theoretical Physics |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Subject Terms: |
Cosmic strings; cosmological applications of theories with extra dimensions; domain walls; monopoles; string theory and cosmology; Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| Description: |
Cosmic (super)strings offer promising ways to test ideas about the early universe and physics at high energies. While in field theory constructions their tension is usually assumed to be constant (or at most slowly-varying), this is often not the case in the context of String Theory. Indeed, the tensions of both fundamental and field theory strings within a string compactification depend on the expectation values of the moduli, which in turn can vary with time. We discuss how the evolution of a cosmic string network changes with a time-dependent tension, both for long-strings and closed loops, by providing an appropriate generalisation of the Velocity One Scale (VOS) model and its implications. The resulting phenomenology is very rich, exhibiting novel features such as growing loops, percolation and a radiation-like behaviour of the long string network. We conclude with a few remarks on the impact for gravitational wave emission. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1475-7516 |
| Relation: |
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/476596 |
| Availability: |
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/476596 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.90683339 |
| Database: |
BASE |