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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References in corpus (12)

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• Detection of Low Tension Cosmic Superstrings
• Updated constraints on superconducting cosmic strings from the astronomy of fast radio bursts
• Exact \textit{pp}-waves, (A)dS waves and Kundt spaces in the Abelian-Higgs model
• Fast Radio Bursts from the Decay of Cosmic String Cusps
• Topological invariants for superconducting cosmic strings