Estimate of the primordial magnetic field helicity
Astrophysics
2009-11-06 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Electroweak baryogenesis proceeds via changes in the non-Abelian Chern-Simons number. It is argued that these changes generate a primordial magnetic field with left-handed helicity. The helicity density of the primordial magnetic field today is then estimated to be given by where /cm is the present cosmological baryon number density. With certain assumptions about the inverse cascade we find that the field strength at recombination is G on a comoving coherence scale pc.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101261,
title = {Estimate of the primordial magnetic field helicity},
author = {Tanmay Vachaspati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101261},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Several improvements; version accepted for publication in PRL