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Dark matter production from cosmic necklaces
Cosmic strings have gained a great interest, since they are formed in a large
class of brane inflationary models. The most interesting story is that cosmic
strings in brane models are distinguished in future cosmological observations.
If the strings in brane models are branes or superstrings that can move along
compactified space, and also if there are degenerated vacua along the
compactified space, kinks interpolate between degenerated vacua become
``beads'' on the strings. In this case, strings turn into necklaces. In the
case that the compact manifold in not simply connected, a string loop that
winds around a nontrivial circle is stable due to the topological reason. Since
the existence of the (quasi-)degenerated vacua and the nontrivial circle is a
common feature of the brane models, it is important to study cosmological
constraints on the cosmic necklaces and the stable winding states. In this
paper, we consider dark matter production from loops of the cosmic necklaces.
Our result suggests that necklaces can put stringent bound on certain kinds of
brane models.Comment: 27 pages, 5 figures, added many comments and 3 figures, accepted for
publication in JCA
Q ball inflation
We show that inflation can occur in the core of a Q-ball.Comment: 11 pages, latex2e, no figure, references added, final version to
appear in PR
Superconducting Gap Function in Antiferromagnetic Heavy-Fermion UPd_2Al_3 Probed by Angle Resolved Magnetothermal Transport Measurements
The superconducting gap structure of heavy fermion UPd_2Al_3, in which
unconventional superconductivity coexists with antiferromagnetic (AF) order
with atomic size local moments, was investigated by the thermal conductivity
measurements in a magnetic field rotating in various directions relative to the
crystal axes. The results provide strong evidence that the gap function
\Delta(k) has a single line node orthogonal to the c-axis located at the AF
Brillouin zone boundary, while \Delta(k) is isotropic within the basal plane.
The determined nodal structure is compatible with the resonance peak in the
dynamical susceptibility observed in neutron inelastic scattering experiments.
Based on these results, we conclude that the superconducting pairing function
of UPd_2Al_3 is most likely to be d-wave with a form \Delta(k)=\Delta_0
cos(k_zc)Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Formation of monopoles and domain walls after brane inflation
We study cosmological defect formation after brane inflation. The
cosmological defects are corresponding to the branes that have less than three
spacial dimensions in the uncompactified spacetime. Contrary to the previous
arguments, production of monopoles and domain walls are not always negligible.
Monopoles and domain walls are formed by the branes extended between mother
branes.Comment: 27pages, 7 figures, many comments, footnotes and reviews are added,
to appear in JHE
Constraint on the heavy sterile neutrino mixing angles in the SO(10) model with double see-saw mechanism
Constraints on the heavy sterile neutrino mixing angles are studied in the
framework of a minimal supersymmetric model with {\it double
see-saw mechanism}. A new singlet matter in addition to the right-handed
neutrinos is introduced to realize the double see-saw mechanism. The minimal
model gives an unambiguous Dirac neutrino mass matrix, which
enables us to predict the masses and the mixing angles in the enlarged neutrino mass matrix. Mixing angles between the light Majorana
neutrinos and the heavy sterile neutrinos are shown to be within the LEP
experimental bound on all ranges of the Majorana phases.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures; the version to be published in Eur. Phys. J.
Line nodes in the superconducting gap function of noncentrosymmetric CePt_3Si
The superconducting gap structure of recently discovered heavy fermion
CePt_3Si without spatial inversion symmetry was investigated by thermal
transport measurements down to 40 mK. In zero field a residual T-linear term
was clearly resolved as T-> 0, with a magnitude in good agreement with the
value expected for a residual normal fluid with a nodal gap structure, together
with a T^2-dependence at high temperatures. With an applied magnetic fields,
the thermal conductivity grows rapidly, in dramatic contrast to fully gapped
superconductors, and exhibits one-parameter scaling with T/sqrt{H}. These
results place an important constraint on the order parameter symmetry, that is
CePt_3Si is most likely to have line nodes.Comment: 5pages, 3figures, accpted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Theory of Metal-Insulator Transition in PrRu4P12 and PrFe4P12
All symmetry allowed couplings between the 4f^2-electron ground state doublet
of trivalent praseodymium in PrRu4P12 and PrFe4P12 and displacements of the
phosphorus, iron or ruthenium ions are considered. Two types of displacements
can change the crystal lattice from body-centred cubic to simple orthorhombic
or to simple cubic. The first type lowers the point group symmetry from
tetrahedral to orthorhombic, while the second type leaves it unchanged, with
corresponding space group reductions Im3 --> Pmmm and Im3 --> Pm3 respectively.
In former case, the lower point-group symmetry splits the degeneracy of the
4f^2 doublet into states with opposite quadrupole moment, which then leads to
anti-quadrupolar ordering, as in PrFe4P12. Either kind of displacement may
conspire with nesting of the Fermi surface to cause the metal-insulator or
partial metal-insulator transition observed in PrFe4P12 and PrRu4P12. We
investigate this scenario using band-structure calculations, and it is found
that displacements of the phosphorus ions in PrRu4P12 (with space group
reduction Im3 --> Pm3) open a gap everywhere on the Fermi surface.Comment: 6 page
Evolution of curvature perturbation in generalized gravity theories
Using the cosmological perturbation theory in terms of the delta-N formalism,
we find the simple formulation of the evolution of the curvature perturbation
in generalized gravity theories. Compared with the standard gravity theory, a
crucial difference appears in the end-boundary of the inflationary stage, which
is due to the non-ideal form of the energy momentum tensor that depends
explicitly on the curvature scalar. Recent study shows that
ultraviolet-complete quantum theory of gravity may be approximated by using a
generalized gravity action. Our paper may give an important step in
understanding the evolution of the curvature perturbation during inflation,
where the energy momentum tensor may not be given by the ideal form due to the
corrections from the fundamental theory.Comment: 15pages, fixed references, accepted for publication in CQ
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