Clustering of cosmological defects at the time of formation
Dec, 19905 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 260 (1991) 27-31
- Published: 1991
Report number:
- BROWN-HET-778
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A simple model for the formation of global monopoles is considered. It is shown that they naturally form in clusters, with monopoles adjacent to antimonopoles, and vice-versa. The strong attraction between pole and antipole causes the clusters to collapse very rapidly, leading to the annihilation of most (62% in our model) of the original defects within a time τ , where τ is of the order of the correlation length.- astrophysics
- postulated particle: magnetic monopole
- cluster: magnetic monopole
- annihilation: magnetic monopole
- magnetic monopole: annihilation
- critical phenomena
- numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
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