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Any attempt to understand the ubiquitous nature of the magnetic field in the present universe seems to lead us towards its primordial origin. For large-scale magnetic fields, however, their strength and length scale may not necessarily…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Subhasis Maiti , Debaprasad Maity , Rohan Srikanth

Problems and perspectives concerning the existence of large-scale magnetic fields are described. Heeding observations, possible origins and implications of magnetic fields in spiral galaxies and in regular clusters are scrutinized in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Giovannini

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are magnetic fields generated during the early universe. These fields are thought to be the seeds of extragalactic magnetic fields. The origin of PMFs is not well known. Further, if they are indeed sources…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 Ganga R. Nair , V. Sreenath

We extend our recent derivation of the time evolution equations for the energy content of magnetic fields and turbulent motions for incompressible, homogeneous, and isotropic turbulence to include the case of nonvanishing helicity. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-14 Andrey Saveliev , Karsten Jedamzik , Guenter Sigl

Was the primordial universe magnetized? The answer to this question would help explain the origin of micro-Gauss strength magnetic fields observed in galaxies. It is also of fundamental importance in developing a complete theory of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-14 Levon Pogosian , Alex Zucca

We perform numerical simulations of Cold Electroweak Baryogenesis, including for the first time in the Bosonic sector the full electroweak gauge group SU(2)$\times$U(1) and CP-violation. We find that the maximum generated baryon asymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Zong-Gang Mou , Paul M. Saffin , Anders Tranberg

Magnetic fields in galaxies are produced via the amplification of seed magnetic fields of unknown nature. The seed fields, which might exist in their initial form in the intergalactic medium, were never detected. We report a lower bound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-21 Andrii Neronov , Ievgen Vovk

We show that the first structures that form in the universe should spontaneously generate magnetic fields. No primordial seed field is required for this "first dynamo". Although the first dynamo starts with kinetic plasma instabilities, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-08 Andrei Gruzinov

The hypermagnetic helicity density at the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) exceeds many orders of magnitude the galactic magnetic helicity density. Together with previous magnetic helicity evolution calculations after the EWPT and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. B. Semikoz , D. Sokoloff , J. W. F. Valle

Some common properties of helical magnetic fields in decaying and driven turbulence are discussed. These include mainly the inverse cascade that produces fields on progressively larger scales. Magnetic helicity also restricts the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg

The origin of our universe's cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery. In this study, we consider whether these magnetic fields could have been generated in the early universe by a population of charged, spinning primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Dan Hooper , Aurora Ireland , Gordan Krnjaic

We demonstrate that primordial magnetic fields (PMF) play a decisive role in the braneworld baryogenesis scenario of [Phys. Rev. D $\textbf{110}$, 023520 (2024)], where C/CP violation arises from the coupling of visible and hidden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Michaël Sarrazin

The coupling between a primordial magnetic field and the cosmic axion field generates a helical component of the magnetic field around the time in which the axion starts to oscillate. If the energy density of the seed magnetic field is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Campanelli , M. Giannotti

In this paper, we explore the evolution of baryon asymmetry as well as the hypermagnetic field in the early universe with an assumption that the flavon of the Froggatt-Nielsen carries an asymmetry. Through the decay of the flavon to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-25 Fatemeh Elahi , Shiva Rostam Zadeh

It is demonstrated that strong magnetic fields are produced from a zero initial magnetic field during the pregalactic era, when galaxies are first forming. Their development proceeds in three phases. In the first phase, weak magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Russell M. Kulsrud , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Dongsu Ryu

The origin of cosmic magnetism is an issue of fundamental importance in astrophysics. We review here some of the ideas of how large scale magnetic fields in the universe, particularly in galaxies and galaxy clusters could arise. The popular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Kandaswamy Subramanian

We search for observational signatures of magnetic helicity in data from all-sky radio polarization surveys of the Milky Way Galaxy. Such a detection would help confirm the dynamo origin of the field and may provide new observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 J. L. West , R. N. Henriksen , K. Ferrière , A. Woodfinden , T. Jaffe , B. M. Gaensler , J. A. Irwin

We investigate the possibility that both the baryon asymmetry of the universe and the observed cold dark matter density are generated by decays of a heavy scalar field which dominates the universe before nucleosynthesis. Since baryons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ryuichiro Kitano , Hitoshi Murayama , Michael Ratz

Cosmology and particle physics are deeply interrelated. Among the common problems are dark energy, dark matter and baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We discuss these problems in general terms, and concentrate on several particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-01 V. A. Rubakov

The origin of cosmic magnetic (B) fields remains an open question. It is generally believed that very weak primordial B fields are amplified by dynamo processes, but it appears unlikely that the amplification proceeds fast enough to account…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ioannis Contopoulos , Dimitris M. Christodoulou , Demosthenes Kazanas , Denise C. Gabuzda