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We study the evolution of primordial magnetic fields until the recombination epoch, which is constrained by the conservation of magnetic helicity density if they are maximally helical and by the Hosking integral if they are non-helical. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Fumio Uchida , Motoko Fujiwara , Kohei Kamada , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We investigate the cosmological consequences of axion interactions with standard model fermions accurately and precisely. Our analysis is entirely based on a phase space framework that allows us to keep track of the axion distribution in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Francesco D'Eramo , Alessandro Lenoci

The presence of a primordial magnetic field in the early universe affects the dynamic of the electroweak phase transition enhancing its strength. This effect may enlarge the window for electroweak baryogenesis in the minimal supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Comelli , D. Grasso , M. Pietroni , A. Riotto

We study the evolution of a stochastic helical magnetic field generated in the early Universe after the electroweak phase transition, using standard magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We find how the coherence length xi, magnetic energy E_M and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Mark Hindmarsh , M. Christensson , A. Brandenburg

In this paper, we study analytically the process of external generation and subsequent free evolution of the lepton chiral asymmetry and helical magnetic fields in the early hot universe. This process is known to be affected by the Abelian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-18 Maksym Sydorenko , Oleksandr Tomalak , Yuri Shtanov

This paper concerns the generation and evolution of the cosmological (large-scale $\sim Mpc$) magnetic fields in an inflationary universe. The universe during inflation is represented by de Sitter space-time. We started with the Maxwell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zuxiang Dai

Axions are very light, very weakly interacting particles postulated more than 30 years ago in the context of the Standard Model of particle physics. Their existence could explain the missing dark matter of the universe. However, despite…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Rundong Li , Jing Wang , Xiaoliang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study the evolution of the protoplanetary discs (PPDs) in the presence of magnetically driven winds with the stress relations motivated by the non-ideal MHD disc simulations. Contribution of the magnetic winds in the angular momentum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Mohsen Shadmehri , Sayyedeh Masoumeh Ghoreyshi

The explanation of the observed galactic magnetic fields may require the existence of a primordial magnetic field. Such a field may arise during the early cosmological phase transitions, or because of other particle physics related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kari Enqvist

We study the amplification of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations induced by the evolution of scalar metric perturbations at the end of inflation. Such perturbations break the conformal invariance of Maxwell equations in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Antonio L. Maroto

During stellar evolution, especially in the PMS, stellar structure and rotation evolve significantly causing major changes in the dynamics and global flows of the star. We wish to assess the consequences of these changes on stellar dynamo,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Constance Emeriau-Viard , Allan Sacha Brun

We study the implications of primordial magnetic fields for the thermal and ionization history of the post-recombination era. In particular we compute the effects of dissipation of primordial magnetic fields owing to ambipolar diffusion and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shiv K Sethi , Biman B. Nath , Kandaswamy Subramanian

The naturalness problem of PQ symmetry motivates study of the heavy QCD axion, with masses $m_a >$ 1 MeV generated at scales above the QCD scale, and low values of the PQ symmetry breaking scale, $f_a$. We compute the abundance of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 David I. Dunsky , Lawrence J. Hall , Keisuke Harigaya

We study the generation of large scale primordial magnetic fields by a cosmological phase transition during the radiation dominated era. The setting is a theory of N charged scalar fields coupled to an abelian gauge field, that undergoes a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , M. Simionato

Motivated by some of the recent swampland conjectures, we study the implementation for the late time acceleration of the Universe of a mechanism developed by Anber and Sorbo in the context of primordial inflation, in which an axion field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-02 Gianguido Dall'Agata , Sergio Gonzalez-Martin , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Marco Peloso

A primordial magnetic field (PMF) can affect the evolution of density field fluctuations in the early universe.In this paper we constrain the PMF amplitude $B_\lambda$ and power spectral index $n_\mathrm{B}$ by comparing calculated density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant. J. Mathews

When axion cold dark matter interacts with a static magnetic field, it can be converted to photons with energy near the axion's mass. Classical analysis shows that incorporating a resonant cavity significantly enhances this conversion rate,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Ruifeng Zheng , Puxian Wei , Qiaoli Yang

The evolution of white dwarfs can be described as a simple cooling process. Recently, it has been possible to determine with an unprecedented precision their luminosity function, that is, the number of stars per unit volume and luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 J. Isern , S. Catalan , E. Garcia-Berro , S. Torres

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) have gained substantial attention as potential candidates for cold dark matter. The ALP field can exhibit fluctuations stemming from initial conditions. These initial field fluctuations hold the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Ahmed Ayad , Dominik J. Schwarz

We find that the adiabatic fluctuations produced in the primordial plasma by cosmological inflation resonantly excite the axion field during the QCD phase transition by pumping axions from low momentum modes to modes with momentum up to of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Pierre Sikivie , Wei Xue