Moduli from cosmic strings

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)01020-9zbMATH Open1005.83049arXivhep-ph/0205063MaRDI QIDQ1852574FDOQ1852574

Authors: Marco Peloso, Lorenzo Sorbo 

Publication date: 6 January 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Moduli fields are generally present in superstring--inspired models. They are typically characterized by masses of the order of the supersymmetry breaking scale and by interactions of gravitational strength to ordinary matter. If stable, they can easily overclose the Universe. If unstable, strong limits on their abundance have to be imposed not to disrupt the successful predictions of nucleosynthesis. We discuss the production of moduli quanta from loops of cosmic strings, which may form at phase transitions in the early history of the Universe. As an application, we then focus on strings formed at the end of hybrid inflation, showing that in this case the coupling of the moduli to the field which forms the string network has to be much weaker than the typical gravitational interactions not to exceed the bounds from nucleosynthesis. Alternatively, if the relevant coupling is of gravitational order, an upper bound of about 10^13 GeV is imposed on the string energy scale.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205063

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zbMATH Keywords

early universe phase transitionsmoduli quantum production

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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