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Vector superconductivity in cosmic strings

Abstract

We argue that in most realistic cases, the usual Witten-type bosonic superconductivity of the cosmic string is automatically (independent of the existence of superconducting currents) accompanied by the condensation of charged gauge vector bosons in the core giving rise to a new vector type superconductivity. The value of the charged vector condensate is related with the charged scalar expectation value, and vanishes only if the latter goes to zero. The mechanism for the proposed vector superconductivity, differing fundamentally from those in the literature, is delineated using the simplest realistic example of the two Higgs doublet standard model interacting with the extra cosmic string. It is shown that for a wide range of parameters, for which the string becomes scalarly superconducting, W boson condensates (the sources of vector superconductivity) are necessarily excited. (author). 14 refs.
Publication Date:
Mar 01, 1992
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
IC-92/41
Reference Number:
SCA: 662110; PA: AIX-23:050196; SN: 92000772320
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Mar 1992
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; COSMOLOGY; STRING MODELS; HIGGS MODEL; INTERMEDIATE VECTOR BOSONS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; 662110; THEORY OF FIELDS AND STRINGS
OSTI ID:
10157377
Research Organizations:
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste (Italy)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE92634923; TRN: XA9231189050196
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
11 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 06, 2005

Citation Formats

Dvali, G R, and Mahajan, S M. Vector superconductivity in cosmic strings. IAEA: N. p., 1992. Web.
Dvali, G R, & Mahajan, S M. Vector superconductivity in cosmic strings. IAEA.
Dvali, G R, and Mahajan, S M. 1992. "Vector superconductivity in cosmic strings." IAEA.
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title = {Vector superconductivity in cosmic strings}
author = {Dvali, G R, and Mahajan, S M}
abstractNote = {We argue that in most realistic cases, the usual Witten-type bosonic superconductivity of the cosmic string is automatically (independent of the existence of superconducting currents) accompanied by the condensation of charged gauge vector bosons in the core giving rise to a new vector type superconductivity. The value of the charged vector condensate is related with the charged scalar expectation value, and vanishes only if the latter goes to zero. The mechanism for the proposed vector superconductivity, differing fundamentally from those in the literature, is delineated using the simplest realistic example of the two Higgs doublet standard model interacting with the extra cosmic string. It is shown that for a wide range of parameters, for which the string becomes scalarly superconducting, W boson condensates (the sources of vector superconductivity) are necessarily excited. (author). 14 refs.}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1992}
month = {Mar}
}