485 research outputs found
Current-Carrying Cosmic Strings in Scalar-Tensor Gravities
We study the modifications on the metric of an isolated self-gravitating
bosonic superconducting cosmic string in a scalar-tensor gravity in the
weak-field approximation. These modifications are induced by an arbitrary
coupling of a massless scalar field to the usual tensorial field in the
gravitational Lagrangian. The metric is derived by means of a matching at the
string radius with a most general static and cylindrically symmetric solution
of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field equations. We show that this metric
depends on five parameters which are related to the string's internal structure
and to the solution of the scalar field. We compare our results with those
obtained in the framework of General Relativity.Comment: 23 pages, no figures, LATEX fil
Scaling of Aharonov-Bohm couplings and the dynamical vacuum in gauge theories
Recent results on the vacuum polarization induced by a thin string of
magnetic flux lead us to suggest an analogue of the Copenhagen `flux spaghetti'
QCD vacuum as a possible mechanism for avoiding the divergence of perturbative
QED, thus permitting consistent completion of the full, nonperturbative theory.
The mechanism appears to operate for spinor, but not scalar, QED.Comment: 11 pages, ITP-SB-92-40, (major conceptual evolution from original
Wakes in Dilatonic Current-Carrying Cosmic Strings
In this work, we present the gravitational field generated by a cosmic string
carrying a timelike current in the scalar-tensor gravities. The mechanism of
formation and evolution of wakes is fully investigated in this framework. We
show explicitly that the inclusion of electromagnetic properties for the string
induces logarithmic divergences in the accretion problem.Comment: Revised version to be published in the Phys. Rev.
Gravitational field around a screwed superconducting cosmic string in scalar-tensor theories
We obtain the solution that corresponds to a screwed superconducting cosmic
string (SSCS) in the framework of a general scalar-tensor theory including
torsion. We investigate the metric of the SSCS in Brans-Dicke theory with
torsion and analyze the case without torsion. We show that in the case with
torsion the space-time background presents other properties different from that
in which torsion is absent. When the spin vanish, this torsion is a
-gradient and then it propagates outside of the string. We investigate
the effect of torsion on the gravitational force and on the geodesics of a
test-particle moving around the SSCS. The accretion of matter by wakes
formation when a SSCS moves with speed is investigated. We compare our
results with those obtained for cosmic strings in the framework of
scalar-tensor theory.Comment: 22 pages, LaTeX, presented at the "XXII - Encontro Nacional de Fisica
de Particulas e Campos", Sao Lourenco, MG, Brazi
Effect of Dynamical SU(2) Gluons to the Gap Equation of Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model in Constant Background Magnetic Field
In order to estimate the effect of dynamical gluons to chiral condensate, the
gap equation of SU(2) gauged Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model, under a constant
background magnetic field, is investigated up to the two-loop order in 2+1 and
3+1 dimensions. We set up a general formulation allowing both cases of electric
as well as magnetic background field. We rely on the proper time method to
maintain gauge invariance. In 3+1 dimensions chiral symmetry breaking
(SB) is enhanced by gluons even in zero background magnetic field and
becomes much striking as the background field grows larger. In 2+1 dimensions
gluons also enhance SB but whose dependence on the background field is
not simple: dynamical mass is not a monotone function of background field for a
fixed four-fermi coupling.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figure
Gravitational field around a time-like current-carrying screwed cosmic string in scalar-tensor theories
In this paper we obtain the space-time generated by a time-like
current-carrying superconducting screwed cosmic string(TCSCS). This
gravitational field is obtained in a modified scalar-tensor theory in the sense
that torsion is taken into account. We show that this solution is comptible
with a torsion field generated by the scalar field . The analysis of
gravitational effects of a TCSCS shows up that the torsion effects that appear
in the physical frame of Jordan-Fierz can be described in a geometric form
given by contorsion term plus a symmetric part which contains the scalar
gradient. As an important application of this solution, we consider the linear
perturbation method developed by Zel'dovich, investigate the accretion of cold
dark matter due to the formation of wakes when a TCSCS moves with speed and
discuss the role played by torsion. Our results are compared with those
obtained for cosmic strings in the framework of scalar-tensor theories without
taking torsion into account.Comment: 21 pages, no figures, Revised Version, presented at the "XXIV-
Encontro Nacional de Fisica de Particulas e Campos ", Caxambu, MG, Brazil, to
appear in Phys. Rev.
Dilatonic current-carrying cosmic strings
We investigate the nature of ordinary cosmic vortices in some scalar-tensor
extensions of gravity. We find solutions for which the dilaton field condenses
inside the vortex core. These solutions can be interpreted as raising the
degeneracy between the eigenvalues of the effective stress-energy tensor,
namely the energy per unit length U and the tension T, by picking a privileged
spacelike or timelike coordinate direction; in the latter case, a phase
frequency threshold occurs that is similar to what is found in ordinary neutral
current-carrying cosmic strings. We find that the dilaton contribution for the
equation of state, once averaged along the string worldsheet, vanishes, leading
to an effective Nambu-Goto behavior of such a string network in cosmology, i.e.
on very large scales. It is found also that on small scales, the energy per
unit length and tension depend on the string internal coordinates in such a way
as to permit the existence of centrifugally supported equilibrium
configuration, also known as vortons, whose stability, depending on the very
short distance (unknown) physics, can lead to catastrophic consequences on the
evolution of the Universe.Comment: 10 pages, ReVTeX, 2 figures, minor typos corrected. This version to
appear in Phys. Rev.
Cosmic String in the Supersymmetric CSKR Theory
We study a cosmic string solution of an N=1-supersymmetric version of the
Cremmer-Scherk-Kalb-Ramond (CSKR) Lagrangian coupled to a vector superfield by
means of a topological mass term. The 2-form gauge potential is proposed to
couple non-minimally to matter, here described by a chiral scalar superfield.
The important outcome is that supersymmetry is kept exact both in the core and
in the exterior region of the string. We contemplate the bosonic configurations
and it can be checked that the solutions saturate the Bogomolnyi bound. A
glimpse on the fermionic zero modes is also given.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX, presented at the XXI "Encontro Nacional de Fisica de
Particulas e Campos", Sao Lourenco, MG, Brazil, with zero modes adde
Overview of the SME: Implications and Phenomenology of Lorentz Violation
The Standard Model Extension (SME) provides the most general
observer-independent field theoretical framework for investigations of Lorentz
violation. The SME lagrangian by definition contains all Lorentz-violating
interaction terms that can be written as observer scalars and that involve
particle fields in the Standard Model and gravitational fields in a generalized
theory of gravity. This includes all possible terms that could arise from a
process of spontaneous Lorentz violation in the context of a more fundamental
theory, as well as terms that explicitly break Lorentz symmetry. An overview of
the SME is presented, including its motivations and construction. Some of the
theoretical issues arising in the case of spontaneous Lorentz violation are
discussed, including the question of what happens to the Nambu-Goldstone modes
when Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously violated and whether a Higgs mechanism
can occur. A minimal version of the SME in flat Minkowski spacetime that
maintains gauge invariance and power-counting renormalizability is used to
search for leading-order signals of Lorentz violation. Recent Lorentz tests in
QED systems are examined, including experiments with photons, particle and
atomic experiments, proposed experiments in space and experiments with a
spin-polarized torsion pendulum.Comment: 40 pages, Talk presented at Special Relativity: Will it Survive the
Next 100 Years? Potsdam, Germany, February, 200
Proof of the Julia-Zee Theorem
It is a well accepted principle that finite-energy static solutions in the
classical relativistic gauge field theory over the -dimensional
Minkowski spacetime must be electrically neutral. We call such a statement the
Julia--Zee theorem. In this paper, we present a mathematical proof of this
fundamental structural property
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