Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8145016 | Chinese Journal of Physics | 2018 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We study the generation of cosmic magnetic fields during de Sitter inflation in a non-conformally-invariant effective model of massive electrodynamics containing a four-photon interaction term. We show that, if the photon self-coupling is strong enough, comoving magnetic fields correlated on scales of 10kpc and of intensities 10â22Gâ²B0â²10â19G are produced as excitation of the vacuum. If amplified by galactic dynamo, they naturally explain the existence of galactic magnetic fields.
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Authors
Leonardo Campanelli,