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Karim Salehi

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arXiv2006

Cerenkov radiation from collisions of straight cosmic (super)strings

We consider Cerenkov radiation which must arise when randomly oriented straight cosmic (super)strings move with relativistic velocities without intercommutation. String interactions via dilaton, two-form and gravity (gravity being the dominant force in the ultra-relativistic regime) leads to formation of superluminal sources which generate Cerenkov radiation of dilatons and axions. Though the effect is of the second order in the couplings of strings to these fields, its total efficiency is increased by high dependence of the radiation rate on the Lorentz-factor of the collision.

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arXiv2005

Form-field bremsstrahlung under collision of p-branes

We calculate classically the radiation of the antisymmetric form field generated in the collision of two non-excited membranes moving with ultrarelativistic velocities in five space-time dimensions. The interaction between branes through the form field is treated perturbatively with the deflection angle as a small parameter. Radiation arises in the second order approximation if the domain of the minimal separation between the branes moves with the superluminal velocity. It exhibits typical Cherenkov cone features. Generalization to p-branes colliding in $D=p+3$ dimensions is straightforward.

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