Elsevier

Nuclear Physics B

Volume 310, Issues 3–4, 12 December 1988, Pages 625-635
Nuclear Physics B

Superconducting cosmic strings and W condensation

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Abstract

We show that the linearized field equations for W-bosons are unstable in the presence of a strong magnetic field from a superconducting cosmic string.

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