Search For Cosmic Strings 

Eunhwa Jeong and G. F. Smoot
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  
Table of Contents:
  1. Birth of Cosmic Strings : Kibble Mechanism
  2. Cosmic D- and F-Strings From Brane Inflation Scenario
  3. Why are other Topological Defects excluded except for Strings?
  4. Simulation of Cosmic Strings
  5. String Dynamics
  6. Kaiser-Stebbins Effect
  7. Temperature Steps
  8. Pattern Search
  9. References
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