Cosmic strings stabilized by fermion fluctuations

DOI10.1142/S0217751X12600160MaRDI QIDQ2919258zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Herbert Weigel, Markus Quandt, Noah Graham

Publication date 2 October 2012

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4863

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic stringsfermion fluctuationsspectral methodvacuum polarization energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We provide a thorough exposition of recent results on the quantum stabilization of cosmic strings. Stabilization occurs through the coupling to a heavy fermion doublet in a reduced version of the standard model. The study combines the vacuum polarization energy of fermion zero-point fluctuations and the binding energy of occupied energy levels, which are of the same order in a semi-classical expansion. Populating these bound states assigns a charge to the string. Strings carrying fermion charge become stable if the Higgs and gauge fields are coupled to a fermion that is less than twice as heavy as the top quark. The vacuum remains stable in the model, because neutral strings are not energetically favored. These findings suggest that extraordinarily large fermion masses or unrealistic couplings are not required to bind a cosmic string in the standard model.

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