Cosmic Strings and Their Induced Non-Gaussianities in the Cosmic Microwave Background : Figure 2

]>Cosmic Strings and Their Induced Non-Gaussianities in the Cosmic Microwave Background : Figure 2

Figure 2: String forming field profiles in the Abelian Higgs model with unity winding number. The Higgs field

H

vanishes in the vortex core and reaches its vacuum expectation value within distances given by the Higgs Compton wavelength

1 / m_{h}

. The gauge field

Q

condenses inside the vortex over distances given by

1 / m_{b}