Generic Current-Carrying Strings

Anne-Christine Davis; Warren B. Perkins

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Generic Current-Carrying Strings

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 8 Oct 1996

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The authors' main claim We investigate the standard model in a cosmic string background and show that the electroweak symmetry is partially restored.

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We investigate the standard model in a cosmic string background and show that the electroweak symmetry is partially restored. For a range of parameters the electroweak Higgs field can wind in this region, producing an electroweak string stabilised by the cosmic string background. In this case there are quark and lepton zero modes that result in the string becoming superconducting at the electroweak scale. If the electroweak Higgs field does not wind, there are no zero modes, but there are fermion bound states. These bound states can also carry a current.

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s2	In this case there are quark and lepton zero modes that result in the string becoming superconducting at the electroweak scale.	result 0.93	0.81	0.23	asserted 1.00
s3	If the electroweak Higgs field does not wind, there are no zero modes, but there are fermion bound states.	result 1.00	0.79	0.06	asserted 1.00
s4	These bound states can also carry a current.	result 0.97	0.77	0.11	asserted 0.50

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We investigate the standard model in a cosmic string background and show that the electroweak symmetry is partially restored. For a range of parameters the electroweak Higgs field can wind in this region, producing an electroweak string stabilised by the cosmic string background. In this case there are quark and lepton zero modes that result in the string becoming superconducting at the electroweak scale. If the electroweak Higgs field does not wind, there are no zero modes, but there are fermion bound states. These bound states can also carry a current.

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Gravitational Waves from Superconducting Cosmic Strings
astro-ph.CO 2026-07 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Lattice simulations show the gravitational-wave spectrum from superconducting cosmic strings develops a coupling-dependent suppression at high frequencies, distinguishing them from ordinary Abelian–Higgs strings.
Gravitational Wave Background from Metastable Current-Carrying Cosmic Strings
astro-ph.CO 2026-10 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Current-carrying metastable cosmic strings can mimic the pulsar timing array signal, but the same parameter region is in tension with the LVK bound unless an extra high-frequency suppression mechanism is added.

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Of particular interest are superconducting cosmic strings, which initially were suggested in Ref. [ref] , since they are the expected outcome of various high energy scenarios [ref] ; it was even argued that when the low-energy limit of the string-forming model contains the standard SU(3)$×$SU(2)$×$U(1) model, currents must be produced, at least at the electroweak scale, but also at any intermediate scale structured in a similar way [ref] .

Charge-velocity-dependent one-scale linear model · Introduction · 0.87
Whether the particular logarithmic form ([ref]) will be able to provide a good description for conducting string defects in realistic field models such as those of the standard electroweak theory and its various extensions [ref] is a problem that will be left for future work.

The logarithmic equation of state for superconducting cosmic strings · Introduction · 0.97
This mechanism is closely analogous to that underlying the Ginzburg–Landau description of superconductivity [ref] , which is the origin of the name “superconducting cosmic strings.” Superconducting strings and their physical properties have been studied extensively in the literature [ref] .

Gravitational Waves from Superconducting Cosmic Strings · Introduction · 0.92

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