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

Figure 4

Numerical simulations of the intersection between two Abelian Higgs strings [154]. The Higgs and gauge field profiles are represented as the inner orange and outer pink tubes. Generically, Abelian Higgs strings with intercommute.

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