High Energy Fluxes from a Non-Scaling Cosmic String Network
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Topological defects, particularly cosmic strings, can provide a mechanism to produce particles with energies of the order 10^21 eV and higher. Here, we report on order of magnitude calculations of fluxes from a cosmic string network which evolves according to a new scenario according to which the main channel for energy loss is the particle production rather than gravitational radiation. We compare the predicted fluxes for protons (anti-protons) and neutrinos (anti-neutrinos) with observations of extremely high energy cosmic rays.
6 pages, 1 Postscript figure, uses sprocl.sty. To appear in the proceedings of the Second Meeting on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics (Faro, Portugal, September 1998), eds. A. Mourao, M. Pimenta, P. Sa, World Scientific, in press (1999)
6 pages, 1 Postscript figure, uses sprocl.sty. To appear in the proceedings of the Second Meeting on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics (Faro, Portugal, September 1998), eds. A. Mourao, M. Pimenta, P. Sa, World Scientific, in press (1999)