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 . The estimation of the magnetic seed is .
Cite
@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