Photon mass in inflation and nearly minimal magnetogenesis
Astrophysics
2017-08-23 v1
Abstract
We argue that the dynamics of photons canonically coupled to scalars in de Sitter inflation gets modified by a photon mass term. This might have lead to generation of potentially observable magnetic field correlated over cosmological scales today.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0409558,
title = {Photon mass in inflation and nearly minimal magnetogenesis},
author = {Tomislav Prokopec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0409558},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 eps figure, contribution to the Proceedings of Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004 (SEWM2004), Helsinki, Finland, June 16-19, 2004