Primordial magnetic fields from inflation???
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
In this note we argue that the breaking of conformal invariance because of the coupling of a charged scalar field to gravity is not sufficient for the production of seed galactic magnetic fields during inflation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011105,
title = {Primordial magnetic fields from inflation???},
author = {Massimo Giovannini and Mikhail Shaposhnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011105},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex, 3 pages, Contribution to the Proceedings of the Conference on Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics CAPP2000, July 2000, Verbier, Switzerland