Gravitational-wave stochastic background from kinks and cusps on cosmic strings

Journal Article · Sat May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.104028· OSTI ID:21409743

Oelmez, S; Mandic, V ^[1]; Siemens, X ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)
2. Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, Department of Physics, P.O. Box 413, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 (United States)

We compute the contribution of kinks on cosmic string loops to stochastic background of gravitational waves (SBGW). We find that kinks contribute at the same order as cusps to the SBGW. We discuss the accessibility of the total background due to kinks as well as cusps to current and planned gravitational-wave detectors, as well as to the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and pulsar timing constraints. As in the case of cusps, we find that current data from interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, such as LIGO, are sensitive to areas of parameter space of cosmic string models complementary to those accessible to pulsar, BBN, and CMB bounds.

• OSTI ID: 21409743
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.104028; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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