Primordial magnetic field constrained from CMB anisotropies,and its generation and evolution before, during and after the BBN

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2006-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610234v1

PoSNIC-IX:194,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 1 figures Proceedings of the International Symposium on Nuclear Astrophysics "Nuclei in the Cosmos - IX", CERN, Genev

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The primordial magnetic field (PMF) can strongly affect the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum and the formation of large scale structure. In this presentation, we calculate the CMB temperature anisotropies generated by including a power-law magnetic field at the photon last scattering surface (PLSS). We then deduce an upper limit on the primordial magnetic field based upon our theoretical analysis of the power excess on small angular scales. We have taken into account several important effects such as the modified matter sound speed in the presence of a magnetic field. An upper limit to the field strength of $|B_\lambda|\lesssim$ 4.7 nG at the present scale of 1 Mpc is deduced. This is obtained by comparing the calculated theoretical result including the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect with recent observed data on the small scale CMB anisotropies from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) and the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver (ACBAR). We discuss several possible mechanisms for the generation and evolution of the PMF before, during and after the BBN.

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