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Primordial magnetogenesis from a supercooled dynamical electroweak phase transition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-09-26 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Observations of γ\gamma-ray from blazars suggest the presence of magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium, which may require a primordial origin. Intense enough primordial magnetic fields can arise from theories of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking during the big bang, where supercooling is ended by a strongly first order phase transition. We consider theories involving new scalars and possibly vectors, including thermal particle dark matter candidates. Intense enough magnetic fields can arise if the reheating temperature after the phase transition is below a few TeV. The same dynamics also leaves testable primordial gravitational waves and possibly primordial black holes.

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@article{arxiv.2506.16387,
  title  = {Primordial magnetogenesis from a supercooled dynamical electroweak phase transition},
  author = {Martin Arteaga Tupia and Anish Ghoshal and Alessandro Strumia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16387},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages, 3 figures. v2: to appear on JHEP. Webinar presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9YEGv6mHw

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