Estimate of the primordial magnetic field helicity

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2001-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101261v3

Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 251302

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Several improvements; version accepted for publication in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.251302

Electroweak baryogenesis proceeds via changes in the non-Abelian Chern-Simons number. It is argued that these changes generate a primordial magnetic field with left-handed helicity. The helicity density of the primordial magnetic field today is then estimated to be given by $\sim 10^2 n_b$ where $n_b\sim 10^{-6}$ /cm$^3$ is the present cosmological baryon number density. With certain assumptions about the inverse cascade we find that the field strength at recombination is $\sim 10^{-13}$ G on a comoving coherence scale $\sim 0.1$ pc.

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