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Magnetic field generation during the cosmological QCD phase transition
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If the QCD phase transition is first-order, then a thermoelectric mechanism will generate magnetic fields in the early universe. For reasonable transition parameters, we find that 5 G magnetic fields could form on scales of 1 m, when the temperature of the universe was around 150 MeV. These primordial fields, a consequence of the QCD phase transition, have a magnitude ~2 x 10^-17^ G at the time when galaxy formation begins.
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“…the generation of primordial magnetic fields; Turner andWidrow (1988) proposed an inflation scenario for the creation of primordial magnetic fields; Quashnock et al. (1989) considered the thermoelectric effect in QCD phase transition to generate the magnetic field of 2 × 10−17 G in the early…”
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- Authors
- Quashnock, J. M., Loeb, A., & Spergel, D. N.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 1989-09
- Volume
- 344
- Pages
- L49
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
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- W2079283815
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- 239
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- 2.06
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- journal article
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- en
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- closed
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