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We propose a novel mechanism to generate primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) strong enough to explain the observed cosmic magnetic fields. We employ a scalar field charged under U(1) gauge symmetry with a non-trivial VEV to provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Alexander Ganz , Chunshan Lin , Mian Zhu

We report an extremely rapid mechanism for magnetic field amplification during the merger of a binary neutron star system. This has implications for the production of the short class of Gamma-Ray Bursts, which recent observations suggest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Price , Stephan Rosswog

Earlier Bamba et al [JCAP (2012)] have obtained cosmological magnetic fields in teleparallel torsion theories of gravity that are not compatible with galactic dynamos. This result agrees with previous ones obtained by the author which shows…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Luiz Carlos Garcia de Andrade

The generation of magnetic fields by a battery, operating in an ion-electron plasma around a Kerr black hole, is studied in the 3+1 split of the Kerr metric. It is found that the gravitomagnetic contributions to the electron partial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ramon Khanna

The effects of magnetic fields on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis(BBN) have been calculated, and the impact on the abundances of the light elements have been investigated numerically. An upper limit on the strength of primordial magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Baolian Cheng , David N. Schramm , James W. Truran

We consider the process of magnetogenesis in the context of nonsingular bounce cosmology. We show that large primordial magnetic fields can be generated during contraction without encountering strong coupling and backreaction issues. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Peng Qian , Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson , Zong-Kuan Guo

We show that strong magnetic fields can be generated at shock waves associated with formation of galaxies or clusters of galaxies by the Weibel instability, an instability in collisionless plasmas. The estimated strength of the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yutaka Fujita , Tsunehiko N. Kato

Axions and axion-like particles can be generated in the early universe through mechanisms such as misalignment production, thermal processes, and the decay of topological defects. In this study, we show that scalar perturbations in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Ruifeng Zheng , Puxian Wei , Qiaoli Yang

We consider the gravitational generation of the massive Z-boson field of the standard model, due to the natural breaking of its conformal invariance during inflation. The electroweak symmetry restoration at the end of inflation turns the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Dimopoulos , T. Prokopec , O. Tornkvist , A. C. Davis

It is well known that when two types of perturbations interact in cosmological perturbation theory, the interaction may lead to the generation of a third type. In this article we discuss the generation of magnetic fields from such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-24 Bob Osano

Generation of large-scale magnetic fields in inflationary cosmology is studied in teleparallelism, where instead of the scalar curvature in general relativity, the torsion scalar describes the gravity theory. In particular, we investigate a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Kazuharu Bamba , Chao-Qiang Geng , Ling-Wei Luo

It has been recently argued \cite{Barvinsky:2017lfl} that the de Sitter phase in cosmology might be naturally generated as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a strongly coupled QCD-like gauge theory in expanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Primordial magnetic field generated in the inflationary era can act as a viable source for the present day intergalactic magnetic field of sufficient strength. We present a fundamental origin for such a primordial generation of the magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-20 Sumanta Chakraborty , Supratik Pal , Soumitra SenGupta

Evidence repeatedly suggests that cosmological sheets, filaments and voids may be substantially magnetised today. The origin of magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium is however currently uncertain. We discuss a magnetogenesis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 Mathieu Langer , Jean-Baptiste Durrive

We consider the formation of a ring-like magnetic field in collisions of bubbles of broken phase in an abelian Higgs model. Particular attention is paid on multiple collisions. The small collision velocity limit, appropriate to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Jarkko Ahonen , Kari Enqvist

Detailed physical processes of magnetic field generation from density fluctuations in the pre-recombination era are studied. Solving Maxwell equations and the generalized Ohm's law, the evolutions of the net charge density, the electric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Naoshi Sugiyama

The Biermann battery is a promising generation mechanism of a seed magnetic field in the universe. We propose a new driving mechanism for the Biermann battery in an inhomogeneous plasma with a beam component. An inhomogeneous electron flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Yutaka Ohira

It is shown that small-scale magnetic fields present before recombination induce baryonic density inhomogeneities of appreciable magnitude. The presence of such inhomogeneities changes the ionization history of the Universe, which in turn…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Karsten Jedamzik , Tom Abel

Rotations of an axion field in field space provide a natural origin for an era of kination domination, where the energy density is dominated by the kinetic term of the axion field, preceded by an early era of matter domination. Remarkably,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Raymond T. Co , David Dunsky , Nicolas Fernandez , Akshay Ghalsasi , Lawrence J. Hall , Keisuke Harigaya , Jessie Shelton

We propose a primordial-origin model for the composite configurations of global magnetic fields in spiral galaxies. We show that uniform tilted magnetic field wound up into a rotating disk galaxy can evolve into composite magnetic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Yoshiaki Sofue , Mami Machida , Takahiro Kudoh