Fireballs from Superconducting Cosmic Strings

Abstract

Thermalized fireballs should be created by cusp events on superconducting cosmic strings. This simple notion allows to reliably estimate particle emission from the cusps in a given background magnetic field. With plausible assumptions about intergalactic magnetic fields, the cusp events can produce observable fluxes of high-energy photons and neutrinos with unique signatures.

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• The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV
• Extragalactic background light inferred from AEGIS galaxy SED-type fractions

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• Fast Radio Bursts from the Decay of Cosmic String Cusps