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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.

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@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}
}

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5 pages, 1 eps figure, contribution to the Proceedings of Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004 (SEWM2004), Helsinki, Finland, June 16-19, 2004