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We present a mechanism for generating primordial magnetic fields with large correlation lengths on the order of 100 kpc today. The mechanism is based on recently conjectured QCD domain walls or similar CP violating domain walls with QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

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

The parity violating Chern-Simons term in the epoch before the electroweak phase transition can be interpreted as a polarization effect associated to massless right-handed electrons (positrons) in the presence of a large-scale seed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-30 V. B. Semikoz , J. W. F. Valle

We show how the temperature-dependent chiral vortical effect can generate hypermagnetic fields and matter-antimatter asymmetries, in the symmetric phase of the early Universe, in the temperature range $100\mbox{GeV} \le T\le 10\mbox{TeV}$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-11 S. Abbaslu , A. Rezaei , S. Rostam Zadeh , S. S. Gousheh

We investigate the evolution of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe (BAU) in its symmetric phase before the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) induced by leptogenesis in the hypermagnetic field of an arbitrary structure and with a maximum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-24 Victor B. Semikoz , Alexander Yu. Smirnov

We study the evolution of hypermagnetic fields (HMFs) in random plasma in the symmetric phase of the early universe. The system of kinetic equations for the spectra of the energy density and the helicity, as well as the particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-15 Maxim Dvornikov

We explore the possibility of an Ekpyrotic contraction phase harbouring a mechanism for Baryogenesis. A Chern-Simons coupling between the fast-rolling Ekpyrotic scalar and the Standard Model Hypercharge gauge field enables the generation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Neil D. Barrie

It has been considered that baryogenesis models without a generation of $B$-$L$ asymmetry such as the GUT baryogenesis do not work since the asymmetry is washed out by the electroweak sphalerons. Here, we point out that helical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-05 Kohei Kamada

Cosmic magnetic fields may be generated during early cosmic phase transition, such as the QCD- or electroweak- transitions. The magnitude of the remainder of such fields at the present epoch crucially depends on the exponent $n$ of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Karsten Jedamzik , Guenter Sigl

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

We study the generation of magnetic fields during preheating within an scenario of hybrid inflation at the electroweak (EW) scale. We find that the non-perturbative and strongly out-of-equilibrium process of magnetic field production occurs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andres Diaz-Gil , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Margarita Garcia Perez , Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo

In this work we compute the production of magnetic fields in models of axion inflation coupled to the hypercharge sector of the Standard Model through a Chern-Simons interaction term. We make the simplest choice of a quadratic inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-26 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Timothy R. Scully , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

We study the inflationary generation of helical cosmological magnetic fields in a higher-dimensional generalization of the electromagnetic theory. For this purpose, we also include a parity breaking piece to the electromagnetic action. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kumar Atmjeet , T. R. Seshadri , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Magnetic fields in the universe potentially serve as a messenger of primordial physics. The observationally suggested intergalactic magnetic fields may be a relic of helical primordial $\mathrm{U}(1)_Y$ magnetic fields, which may also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Yuta Hamada , Kyohei Mukaida , Fumio Uchida

We argue that the creation of a baryon asymmetry in the early universe is an intriguing case where several aspects of ``Beyond'' physics are needed. We then concentrate on baryogenesis in a strong first-order phase transition and discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Michael G. Schmidt

In this study, we show that, in the background of the primordial magnetic field, the chiral magnetic effect effect can significantly amplify the chiral chemical potential sourced by the CP violation near the bubble walls during the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Hui Liu , Ligong Bian

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

Most early Universe scenarios predict negligible magnetic fields on cosmological scales if they are unprocessed during subsequent expansion of the Universe. We present a new numerical treatment of the evolution of primordial fields and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Guenter Sigl

If a primordial magnetic field in the universe has non-zero helicity, the violation of parity symmetry results in non-zero correlations between cosmic microwave background temperature and B-mode polarization. In this paper we derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-22 Tina Kahniashvili , Yurii Maravin , George Lavrelashvili , Arthur Kosowsky

We consider the creation of non-zero Chern-Simons number in a model of the early Universe, where the Higgs field experiences a fast quench at the end of inflation and subsequently rolls down its potential barrier. Neglecting the expansion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jan Smit , Anders Tranberg