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Primordial Magnetic Fields (PMFs) -- magnetic fields originating in the early Universe and permeating the cosmological scales today -- can explain the observed microGauss-level magnetisation of galaxies and their clusters. In light of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Salome Mtchedlidze , Franco Vazza , Xiaolong Du , Ettore Carretti , Chiara Stuardi , Shane Patrick O'Sullivan

Primordial magnetic fields generated in the early universe are subject of considerable investigation, and observational limits on their strength are required to constrain the theory. Due to their impact on the reionization process, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Francesco Miniati

The primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) produced in the early universe are expected to be the origin of the large-scale cosmic magnetic fields. The PMFs are considered to leave a footprint on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 Teppei Minoda , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroyuki Tashiro

We revisit the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) limits on primordial magnetic fields and/or turbulent motions accounting for the decaying nature of turbulent sources between the time of generation and BBN. This leads to larger estimates for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Tina Kahniashvili , Emma Clarke , Jonathan Stepp , Axel Brandenburg

Magnetic fields have been observed in galaxies, clusters of galaxies and probably in superclusters. While mechanisms exist to generate these in the late universe, it is possible that magnetic fields have existed since very early times. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-07 Iain A. Brown

A possible explanation for the origin of the magnetic fields observed today in matter structures is that they were generated in the primordial universe. After briefly revising the model of a primordial stochastic magnetic field and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Chiara Caprini

A primordial vector mode and its associated magnetic field generation are investigated. Firstly, we put an observational constraint on the amount of the primordial vector mode from the seven-year WMAP data. The constraint is found as $r_v…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Keitaro Takahashi , Naoshi Sugiyama

We explore a novel process in the early Universe in which thermalized photons are converted into gravitons in the presence of strong primordial magnetic fields. It is found that the frequency of generated gravitational waves (GWs) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-19 Tomohiro Fujita , Kohei Kamada , Yuichiro Nakai

If vector type perturbations are present in the primordial plasma before recombination, the generation of magnetic fields is known to be inevitable through the Harrison mechanism. In the context of the standard cosmological perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shohei Saga , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Keitaro Takahashi , Naoshi Sugiyama

We investigate the effects of the background primordial magnetic field (PMF) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The sound speed of the tightly coupled photon-baryon fluid is increased by the background PMF. The increased sound speed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Dai G. Yamazaki

The creation of large scale magnetic fields is studied in an inflationary universe where electrodynamics is assumed to be nonlinear. After inflation ends electrodynamics becomes linear and thus the description of reheating and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kerstin E. Kunze

We study the evolution of QCD phase transition-generated magnetic fields in freely decaying MHD turbulence of the expanding Universe. We consider a magnetic field generation model that starts from basic non-perturbative QCD theory and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-18 Alexander G. Tevzadze , Leonard Kisslinger , Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili

The phase of the transmission amplitude through a mesoscopic system contains information about the system's quantum mechanical state and excitations thereof. In the absence of an external magnetic field, abrupt phase lapses occur between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yehuda Dinaii , Yuval Gefen , Bernd Rosenow

We compute the gravity waves induced by anisotropic stresses of stochastic primordial magnetic fields. The nucleosynthesis bound on gravity waves is then used to derive a limit on the magnetic field amplitude as function of the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer

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 second order.…

The role played by a primordial magnetic field during the pre-recombination epoch is analysed through the cyclotron radiation (due to the free electrons) it might produce in the primordial plasma. We discuss the constraint implied by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Denis Puy , Patrick Peter

Operating resonant mass detectors set interesting bounds on diffused backgrounds of gravitational radiation and in the next five years the wide-band interferometers will also look for stochastic sources. In this lecture the interplay among…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Giovannini

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

Cosmic magnetic fields are observed to be coherent on large scales and could have a primordial origin. Non-Gaussian signals in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are generated by primordial magnetic fields as the magnetic stresses and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Pranjal Trivedi , Kandaswamy Subramanian , T. R. Seshadri

We investigate the joint effect of the cosmological phase transitions, thermal light dark matter, and the lepton asymmetry on the big bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave background. We find that all of them can modify the predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-06 Shihao Deng , Ligong Bian