Geodesic motion in the space-time of a cosmic string

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2010)110MaRDI QIDQ2015892zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Betti Hartmann, Parinya Sirimachan

Publication date 24 June 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0863

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitystring theory and cosmic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We study the geodesic equation in the space-time of an Abelian-Higgs string and discuss the motion of massless and massive test particles. The geodesics can be classified according to the particles energy, angular momentum and linear momentum along the string axis. We observe that bound orbits of massive particles are only possible if the Higgs boson mass is smaller than the gauge boson mass, while massless particles always move on escape orbits. Moreover, neither massive nor massless particles can ever reach the string axis for non-vanishing angular momentum. We also discuss the dependence of light deflection by a cosmic string as well as the perihelion shift of bound orbits of massive particles on the ratio between Higgs and gauge boson mass and the ratio between symmetry breaking scale and Planck mass, respectively.

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