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Inflation-produced, large-scale magnetic fields
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We study the production of large-scale (\ensuremath{\sim}Mpc) magnetic fields in inflationary Universe models. The magnetic fields produced are uninterestingly small unless the conformal invariance of the electromagnetic field is broken. Once the conformal invariance is broken, a mechanism akin to ``superadiabatic amplification'' can operate and lead to sizable primeval magnetic fields. We consider three ways of breaking the conformal invariance: through gravitational couplings of the photon; through the coupling of the photon to a charged massless, nonconformally invariant scalar field; and through the anomalous coupling of the photon to axions. The primeval magnetic fields which result can have astrophysically interesting strengths, but are very model dependent.
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- Authors
- Turner, M. S., & Widrow, L. M.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1988-05-15
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2743-2754
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2047650797
- Cited by
- 1,025
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 7.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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