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Primordial blackholes formed in the early Universe via gravitational collapse of over-dense regions may contribute a significant amount to the present dark matter relic density. Inflation provides a natural framework for the production…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 Shinsuke Kawai , Jinsu Kim

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

Cosmological magnetic fields in open Friedmann universes can experience superadiabatic amplification within the realm of conventional electromagnetism. This is possible mathematically, despite the conformal invariance of Maxwell's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 J. D. Barrow , C. G. Tsagas , K. Yamamoto

Cosmological inflation provides the initial conditions for the structure formation. However, the origin of large-scale magnetic fields cannot be addressed in this framework. The key issue for this long-standing problem is the conformal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Debottam Nandi , S. Shankaranarayanan

The origin of large-scale magnetic field in the universe is one of the greatest mysteries in modern cosmology. We present a new mechanism for generation of large-scale magnetic field, based on the power-counting renormalizable theory of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Satoshi Maeda , Shinji Mukohyama , Tetsuya Shiromizu

Recently much controversy has been shed on BICEP 2 experiments for the concerning this validity or not and a possible set of new experiments to detect primordial inflation and gravitational waves. Since gravitational waves imply the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-13 L. C. G. Andrade

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

The origin of the observed large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is a mystery. The seed of these magnetic fields has been attributed to physical process in the early universe. In this work we provide a mechanism for the generation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-12 Abhishek Atreya , Soma Sanyal

Most of the baryonic matter in the Universe is permeated by magnetic fields which affect many, if not most, of astrophysical phenomena both, in compact sources and in diffuse gas. Recent years have been marked by a worldwide surge of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-23 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

In this work we investigate the possibility of generation of primordial magnetic field in the early universe near the QCD phase transition epoch via the collapse of $Z(3)$ domains. The $Z(3)$ domain walls arise in the deconfined phase of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-18 Abhishek Atreya , Soma Sanyal

Weak magnetic fields must have existed in the early Universe, as they were sourced by the cross product of electron density and temperature gradients through the Biermann-battery mechanism. In this paper we calculate the magnetic fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Nanoom Lee , Yacine Ali-Haimoud

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 consider models in which the (transverse) photon mass is non-zero during inflation and drops to zero non-adiabatically at the end of inflation. Through this process, vacuum fluctuations of the photon field are converted into physical,…

We propose a mechanism for the generation of a magnetic field in the early universe during the QCD crossover assuming that dark matter is made of axions. Thermoelectric fields arise at pressure gradients in the primordial plasma due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Francesco Miniati , Gianluca Gregori , Brian Reville , Subir Sarkar

I review some of the mechanisms through which primordial magnetic fields may be created in the electroweak phase transition. I show that no magnetic fields are produced initially from two-bubble collisions in a first-order transition. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 Ola Tornkvist

We consider a simple inflation model with a complex scalar field coupled to gravity non-minimally. Both the modulus and the angular directions of the complex scalar are slowly rolling, leading to two-field inflation. The modulus direction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Hyun Min Lee

The origin of magnetic fields observed on both astrophysical and cosmological scales is a compelling problem that has the potential to shed light on the early Universe. We analytically investigate inflationary magnetogenesis in scenarios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Bill Atkins , Debika Chowdhury , Alisha Marriott-Best , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The interrelation between the generation of large-scale electric fields and that of large-scale magnetic fields due to the breaking of the conformal invariance of the electromagnetic field in inflationary cosmology is studied. It is shown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Kazuharu Bamba

A pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson, with a potential of the form $ V(\phi) = \Lambda^4 [1 + \cos(\phi/f)]$, can naturally give rise to an epoch of inflation in the early universe (Freese, Frieman, and Olinto 1990). The potential is naturally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Katherine Freese

The generation of magnetic fields during inflation in an electromagnetic model with a non-local form factor in Maxwell`s action is studied. The equations of motion for the electromagnetic field are derived and solved. It is found that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 E. V. Gorbar , T. V. Gorkavenko , V. M. Gorkavenko , O. M. Teslyk