Gravitational waves from melting cosmic strings

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/057MaRDI QIDQ5863320zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William T. Emond, Sabir Ramazanov, Rome Samanta

Publication date 11 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05377

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic stringscosmology of theories beyond the SMdomain wallsgravitational waves/sourcesmonopoles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Gravitational waves (83C35) Black holes (83C57) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: Appearance of cosmic strings in the early Universe is a common manifestation of new physics typically linked to some high energy scale. In this paper, we discuss a different situation, where a model underlying cosmic string formation is approximately scale free. String tension is naturally related to the square of the temperature of the hot primordial plasma in such a setting, and hence decreases with (cosmic) time. With gravitational backreaction neglected, the dynamics of these melting strings in an expanding Universe is equivalent to the dynamics of constant tension strings in a Minkowski spacetime. We provide an estimate for the emission of gravitational waves from string loops. Contrary to the standard case, the resulting spectrum is markedly non-flat and has a characteristic falloff at frequencies below the peak one. The peak frequency is defined by the underlying model and lies in the range accessible by the future detectors for very weak couplings involved.

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