Cosmic rays and spectral distortions from collapsing textures

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/09/035MaRDI QIDQ5070947zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bryce Cyr, Hao Jiao, Robert H. Brandenberger

Publication date 14 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11099

zbMATH Keywords

domain wallsmonopolescosmic stringsCMBR theorygamma ray theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Black holes (83C57) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Texture in solid mechanics (74E25) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60)

Abstract: We compute the energy spectrum of photons and neutrinos produced by the unwinding of a scaling distribution of cosmic textures, and discuss the implications for the spectrum of high energy cosmic rays, and for CMB spectral distortions. Textures lead to a contribution to the photon flux which scales as $E^{3}F(E)sim{E}^{3/2}$. Hence, the tightest constraints on the texture model come from the highest energies from which primordial photons can reach us without being scattered by the CMB and other foregrounds. Textures lead to both $mu$ type and $y$ type distortions. While the constraints on the texture model coming from the current COBE bounds are weaker than the bounds from the angular power spectrum of the CMB, future surveys such as PIXIE can lead to stronger bounds. The high energy neutrino flux is constrained by data from the Pierre Auger experiment and yields a bound on the energy scale of textures which is competitive with CMB bounds.

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• CMB Anisotropies by Collapsing Textures

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