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Chiral Battery, scaling laws and magnetic fields

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-08-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Plasma Physics

Abstract

We study the generation and evolution of magnetic field in the presence of chiral imbalance and gravitational anomaly which gives an additional contribution to the vortical current. The contribution due to gravitational anomaly is proportional to T2T^2 which can generate a seed magnetic field irrespective of plasma being hirally charged or neutral. We estimate the order of magnitude of the magnetic field to be 103010^{30}~G at T109T\sim 10^9 GeV, with a typical length scale of the order of 101810^{-18} cm, which is much smaller than the Hubble radius at that temperature (10810^{-8} cm). Moreover, such a system possesses scaling symmetry. We show that the T2T^2 term in the vorticity current along with scaling symmetry leads to more power transfer from lower to higher length scale as compared to only chiral anomaly without scaling symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1705.03683,
  title  = {Chiral Battery, scaling laws and magnetic fields},
  author = {Sampurn Anand and Jitesh R. Bhatt and Arun Kumar Pandey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.03683},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures