5 papers
Resonance phenomena in vortex-antivortex collisions
Maximilian Bachmaier, Andrzej Wereszczynski
In this work, we provide a full map of scattering scenarios between a Nielsen-Olesen vortex and antivortex. Importantly, in the deep type II regime, such a collision reveals a chao…
Cosmological Implications of the Slingshot Effect: Gravitational Waves, Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter
Maximilian Bachmaier, Gia Dvali, Juan Sebastián Valbuena-Bermúdez +1
In this paper, we explore the implications of the so-called slingshot effect. It represents a rather general phenomenon occurring when a localized source, such as a monopole, quark…
From BPS geodesics to mode-driven dynamics in the scattering of multiple BPS vortices
Alberto Alonso-Izquierdo, Maximilian Bachmaier, Andrzej Wereszczynski
We analyze how the geodesic motion in the 3- and 4-vortex sectors of the Abelian-Higgs model at critical coupling is deformed by the excitation of a massive bound mode. We find tha…
Witten Effect in -Form Description of -vacua
Maximilian Bachmaier, Gia Dvali, Juan Sebastián Valbuena-Bermúdez
The -vacua of a gauge theory admit an equivalent formulation as vacua of a massless Chern-Simons -form, which originate from the topological susceptibility of the vacuum. Th…
Simulations of Magnetic Monopole Collisions
Maximilian Bachmaier, Gia Dvali, Josef Seitz +1
In this paper, we investigate the scattering of BPS magnetic monopoles through numerical simulations. We present an ansatz for various multi-monopole configurations suitable for an…