Cosmic (p,q,r) strings

Journal Article · Sun Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.087301· OSTI ID:21020438

Jackson, Mark G ^[1]

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1. Particle Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)

The spectrum of (p,q) bound states of F- and D-strings has a distinctive square-root tension formula that is hoped to be a hallmark of fundamental cosmic strings. We point out that the Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) bound for vortices in N=2 supersymmetric Abelian-Higgs models also takes the square-root form. In contrast to string theory, the most general supersymmetric field theoretic model allows for (p,q,r) strings, with three classes of strings rather than two. Unfortunately, we find that there do not exist BPS solutions except in the trivial case. The issue of whether there exist non-BPS solutions which may closely resemble the square-root form is left as an open question.

• OSTI ID: 21020438
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.087301; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BOUND STATE
COSMOLOGY
HIGGS MODEL
MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
STRING MODELS
SUPERSYMMETRY
VORTICES