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Cosmic Neutrino Background as a Ferromagnet

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-07-11 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

If cosmic background neutrinos interact very weakly with each other, through spin-spin interactions, then they may have experienced a phase transition, leading to a ferromagnetic ordering. The small magnetic field resulting from ferromagnetic ordering -- if present before galaxy formation -- could act as a primordial seed of the magnetic fields observed in several galaxies. Our findings suggest that the magnetization could occur in the right epoch, if the exchange boson of neutrino-neutrino interaction is a massless boson beyond the Standard Model, with a coupling constant of 2.2×1013(mν104eV)2<g<2.3×1072.2\times 10^{-13} \left(\frac{m_\nu}{10^{-4}\,\rm{eV}}\right)^2<g<2.3\times 10^{-7}. The estimation of the magnetic seed is 2.3×1027GBCNB6.8×1010G2.3 \times 10^{-27}\,\rm{G}\lesssim B_{\rm CNB}\lesssim 6.8\times 10^{-10}G.

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@article{arxiv.1309.3244,
  title  = {Cosmic Neutrino Background as a Ferromagnet},
  author = {Paola Arias and Jorge Gamboa and Justo Lopez-Sarrion},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3244},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

4 pages. Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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