Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-07-14
Phys.Lett.B501:165-172,2001; Phys.Rev.Focus10:story9,2002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 3 figures. New improved figures, typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00138-1
We show that conformal invariance of gauge fields is naturally broken in inflation, having as a consequence amplification of gauge fields. The resulting spectrum of the field strength is approximately B_L ~ L^(-1), where L is the relevant coherence scale. One realisation of our scenario is scalar electrodynamics with a scalar whose mass is large enough to evade observational constraints - the obvious candidates being supersymmetric partners of the standard-model fermions. Our mechanism also leads naturally to amplification of the standard-model Z-boson field due to its coupling to the electroweak Higgs field. At preheating, the spectrum of the Z field is transferred to the hypercharge field, which remains frozen in the plasma and is converted into a magnetic field at the electroweak phase transition. With a reasonable model of field evolution one obtains a magnetic field strength of the order of $10^{-29}$ Gauss on a scale of 100 pc, the size of the largest turbulent eddy in a virialised galaxy. Resonant amplification in preheating can lead to primordial fields as large as $10^{-24}$ Gauss, consistent with the seed field required for the galactic dynamo mechanism.
Davis Anne--Christine
Dimopoulos Konstantinos
Prokopec Tomislav
Tornkvist Ola
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