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We study the effect of the non-linear process of ambipolar diffusion (joint transport of magnetic flux and charged particles relative to neutral particles) on the long-term behavior of a non-uniform magnetic field in a one-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jaime Hoyos , Andreas Reisenegger , Juan Valdivia

We consider the evolution of primordial magnetic fields generated during cosmological, electroweak or QCD, phase transitions. We assume that the magnetic field generation can be described as an injection of magnetic energy to cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-24 Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze , Axel Brandenburg , Andrii Neronov

Particles of the cosmic radiation, electrons and nuclei, transport a dominant positive electric charge. A tiny fraction of these particles of extremely high energies in favorable conditions overflow from galaxies. The overflowing of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-10 Antonio Codino

In this letter, we discuss generation of magnetic field from cosmological perturbations. We consider the evolution of three component plasma (electron, proton and photon) evaluating the collision term between elecrons and photons up to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroshi Ohno , Hidekazu Hanayama

We show that the decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence leads to a more rapid growth of the correlation length of a primordial magnetic field than that caused by the expansion of the Universe. As an example, we consider the magnetic fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 D. T. Son

We study the effect of variations of the electromagnetic coupling on the process of generation of primordial magnetic fields. We find that only through a significant growth of the electromagnetic coupling minimum seed fields can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-24 O. Bertolami , R. Monteiro

The primordial nucleosinthesys of the element can be influenced by the transitions of phase that take place after the Big Bang, such as the QCD transition. In order to study the effect of this phase transition, in this work we compute the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 G. L. Guardo , V. Greco , M. Ruggieri

The physical ingredients to describe the epoch of cosmological recombination are amazingly simple and well-understood. This fact allows us to take into account a very large variety of processes, still finding potentially measurable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-06 R. A. Sunyaev , J. Chluba

The early Universe after inflation may have oscillations, kinations (nonoscillatory evolution of a field), topological defects, relativistic and non-relativistic particles at the same time. The Universe whose energy density is a sum of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Seishi Enomoto , Kazunori Kohri , Tomohiro Matsuda

In this paper we show that the Universe is already strongly magnetized at very early epochs during cosmic evolution. Our calculations are based on the efficient amplification of weak magnetic seed fields, which are unavoidably present in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-09 Jacques M. Wagstaff , Robi Banerjee , Dominik Schleicher , Guenter Sigl

It has been pointed out in the literature that in the presence of an external magnetic field the axion mass receives an electromagnetic contribution. We show that if a magnetic field with energy density larger than ~10^{-8} times the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Campanelli , M. Giannotti

Mathematics demonstrates that an ideally evolving magnetic field has an exponentially increasing sensitivity to non-ideal effects for all but truly exceptional evolutions. On a time scale that depends only logarithmically on the magnitude…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Allen H. Boozer

We show that dark matter annihilation around the time of recombination can lead to growing ionization fraction perturbations, that track the linear collapse of matter over-densities. This amplifies small scale cosmological perturbations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-14 Cora Dvorkin , Kfir Blum , Matias Zaldarriaga

We show that if photon possesses a tiny but non-vanishing mass the universe cannot be electrically neutral. Cosmological electric asymmetry could be generated either at an early stage by different evaporation rates of primordial black holes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Dolgov , Diego N. Pelliccia

Hydrogen recombination in the early Universe in the presence of a magnetic field is studied. An equation for the temperature of recombination in the presence of a magnetic field is derived. Limiting cases of weak and strong fields are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-21 N. O. Agasian , S. M. Fedorov

Violent gravitational interactions can change the morphologies of galaxies and, by means of merging, transform them into elliptical galaxies. We aim to investigate how they affect the evolution of galactic magnetic fields. We selected 16…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-23 Robert T. Drzazga , Krzysztof T. Chyzy , Wojciech Jurusik , Krzysztof Wiorkiewicz

It is argued that large scale cosmic magnetic field could be generated in the primeval plasma slightly before hydrogen recombination. Non-zero vorticity, necessary for that, might be created by the photon diffusion in the second order in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Z. Berezhiani , A. D. Dolgov

We show that a self-consistent and coupled treatment of the weak decoupling, big bang nucleosynthesis, and photon decoupling epochs can be used to provide new insights and constraints on neutrino sector physics from high-precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Grohs , G. M. Fuller , C. T. Kishimoto , M. W. Paris

The manuscript deals with electron acceleration by a laser pulse in a plasma with a static uniform magnetic field $B_*$. The laser pulse propagates perpendicular to the magnetic field lines with the polarization chosen such that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 A. Arefiev , Z. Gong , A. P. L. Robinson

Particle acceleration consequences from fluctuating electric fields superposed on an X-type magnetic field in collisionless solar plasma are studied. Such a system is chosen to mimic generic features of dynamic reconnection, or the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Petkaki , A. L. MacKinnon