Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 747, Issue -, Pages 426-432Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.034
Keywords
Domain walls; Topological defects; CMB; Phase transitions
Funding
- STFC [ST/H008586/1, ST/K00333X/1]
- FCT [IF/00064/2012, PTDC/FIS/111725/2009]
- POPH/FSE (EC)
- BIS National E-infrastructure capital grant [ST/J005673/1]
- FCT/MCTES (Portugal)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000636/1, ST/J005673/1, ST/I002006/1, 1197373, ST/M00418X/1, ST/H008586/1, ST/M007065/1, ST/K00333X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/J005673/1, ST/I002006/1, ST/K00333X/1, ST/M00418X/1, ST/M007065/1, ST/H008586/1, ST/L000636/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We use three domain wall simulations from the radiation era to the late-time dark energy domination era based on the PRS algorithm to calculate the energy-momentum tensor components of domain wall networks in an expanding universe. Unequal time correlators in the radiation, matter and cosmological constant epochs are calculated using the scaling regime of each of the simulations. The CMB power spectrum of a network of domain walls is determined. The first ever quantitative constraint for the domain wall surface tension is obtained using a Markov chain Monte Carlo method; an energy scale of domain walls of 0.93 MeV, which is close but below the Zel'dovich bound, is determined. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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