N = 1 supersymmetric cosmic strings

1997/02/18 by Stephen C. Davis, Anne-Christine Davis, Mark Trodden · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(97)00642-4

published as Phys.Lett. B405 (1997) 257-264 · 16 pages, RevTeX

arxiv created 1997/02/18 · openalex publication_date 1997/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We investigate the microphysics of supersymmetric cosmic strings. In particular we focus on the vortices admitted by N=1 supersymmetric abelian Higgs models. We find the vortex solutions and demonstrate that the two simplest supersymmetric cosmic string models admit fermionic superconductivity. Further, by using supersymmetry transformations, we show how to solve for the fermion zero modes giving rise to string superconductivity in terms of the background string fields.

Citations

• Cosmic vortons and particle physics constraints
• Supersymmetry and Supergravity
• Topology of cosmic domains and strings

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