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We study an idealised plasma of fermions, coupled through an abelian gauge force $U(1)_X$, and which is asymmetric in that the masses of the oppositely charged species are greatly unequal. The system is dubbed PAAI, plasma asym\'etrique,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-21 R. B. MacKenzie , M. B. Paranjape , U. A. Yajnik

We demonstrate that a quasi-uniform cosmological seed field is a much less suitable seed for a galactic dynamo than has often been believed. The age of the Universe is insufficient for a conventional galactic dynamo to generate a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Dmitri Sokoloff , David Moss

We show that coherent magnetic field is generated spontaneously when a large domain wall is created in the early universe. It is caused by two dimensional massless fermions bounded to the domain wall soliton. We point out that the magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Aiichi Iwazaki

The idea that the seed primordial magnetic fields can be explained by the nonminimal coupling between gravitational and electromagnetic fields is discussed. The predicted values of the magnetic field of the spiral galaxies are in agreement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Opher , U. F. Wichoski

The generation of primordial magnetic seed fields during inflation is studied in a theory derived from the one-loop vacuum polarization effective action of the photon in a curved background. This includes terms which couple the curvature to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Kerstin E. Kunze

The generation of large-scale magnetic fields is studied in dilaton electromagnetism in inflationary cosmology, taking into account the dilaton's evolution throughout inflation and reheating until it is stabilized with possible entropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuharu Bamba , J. Yokoyama

The high-temperature plasma above the electroweak scale $\sim 100$ GeV may have contained a primordial hypercharge magnetic field whose anomalous coupling to the fermions induces a transformation of the hypermagnetic energy density into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Giovannini , M. E. Shaposhnikov

We construct exact solutions to noncommutative gravity following the formulation of Chamseddine and show that they are in general accompanied by Abelian gauge fields which are first order in the noncommutative scale. This provides a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-18 Allen Stern

Beyond the Newtonian approximation, gravitational fields in general relativity can be described using a formalism known as gravitoelectromagnetism. In this formalism a vector potential, the gravitomagnetic potential, arises as a result of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-02 Viktor T. Toth

It is usually assumed that when Weyl invariance is unbroken in the electromagnetic sector, the energy density of primordial magnetic fields will redshift as radiation. Here we show that primordial magnetic fields do not exhibit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Takeshi Kobayashi , Martin S. Sloth

Studies about a formal analogy between the gravitational and the electromagnetic fields lead to the notion of Gravitoelectromagnetism (GEM) to describe gravitation. In fact, the GEM equations correspond to the weak field approximation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-19 A. F. Santos , J. Ramos , Faqir C. Khanna

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

In this article, we investigate the possibility that the large-scale magnetic fields observed in galaxies, of the order of microgauss, arise naturally from a complex Scalar Field Dark Matter (SFDM) halo charged under a local $U(1)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Maribel Hernández-Márquez , Bryan Mendoza-Meza , Tonatiuh Matos , Tula Bernal , Miguel Alcubierre

Using EW-MSSM field theory, so the EWPT is first order, we derive the equations of motion for the gauge fields. With an isospin ansatz we derive e.o.m. for the electrically charged W fields uncoupled from all other fields. These and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Ernest M. Henley , Mikkel B. Johnson , Leonard S. Kisslinger

We present a five dimensional unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism which leads to modified Maxwell equations, suggesting a new origin for galactic magnetic fields. It is shown that a region with nonzero scalar curvature would…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-19 A. Borzou , H. R. Sepangi , R. Yousefi , A. H. Ziaie

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

Projecting a non-Abelian SU(2) vacuum gauge field - a pure gauge constructed from the group element U - onto a fixed (electromagnetic) direction in isospace gives rise to a nontrivial magnetic field, with nonvanishing magnetic helicity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Jackiw , So-Young Pi

The origin of the magnetic field in galaxies is an open question in astrophysics. Several mechanisms have been proposed related, in general, with the generation of small seed fields amplified by a dynamo mechanism. In general, these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 O. D. Miranda , M. Opher , R. Opher

The galactic magnetic field is commonly supposed to be due to a dynamo acting on some large scale seed field. A major difficulty with this idea is that estimates of reasonable seed field strengths tend to be quite low, on the order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ethan T. Vishniac

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