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Dissipating Cosmic Vortons and Baryogenesis
Anne-Christine Davis, Warren B. Perkins
Grand unified theories can admit cosmic strings with fermion zero modes which result in the string carrying a current and the formation of stable remnants, vortons. We consider the…
Generic Current-Carrying Strings
Anne-Christine Davis, Warren B. Perkins
We investigate the standard model in a cosmic string background and show that the electroweak symmetry is partially restored. For a range of parameters the electroweak Higgs field…
Microphysics of SO(10) Cosmic Strings
Anne-Christine Davis, Stephen C. Davis
We uncover a rich microphysical structure for SO(10) cosmic strings. For the abelian string the electroweak symmetry is restored around it in a region depending on the electroweak…
The Impossibility of Baryogenesis at a Second Order Electroweak Phase Transition
Tomislav Prokopec, Robert Brandenberger, Anne-Christine Davis
We investigate whether baryogenesis is possible at a second order electroweak phase transition. We find that under rather general conditions, the departure from thermal equilibrium…