Published July 1, 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Chiral battery, scaling laws and magnetic fields

  • 1. Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, 380009 (India)

Description

We study the generation and evolution of magnetic field in the presence of chiral imbalance and gravitational anomaly which gives an additional contribution to the vortical current. The contribution due to gravitational anomaly is proportional to T 2 which can generate seed magnetic field irrespective of plasma being chirally charged or neutral. We estimate the order of magnitude of the magnetic field to be 1030 G at T ∼ 109 GeV, with a typical length scale of the order of 10−18 cm, which is much smaller than the Hubble radius at that temperature (10−8 cm). Moreover, such a system possess scaling symmetry. We show that the T 2 term in the vorticity current along with scaling symmetry leads to more power transfer from lower to higher length scale as compared to only chiral anomaly without scaling symmetry.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/07/051

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2017
Journal Issue
07
Journal Page Range
p. 051
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
49022850
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CHIRALITY; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; GEV RANGE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA; SCALING LAWS; SYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY RANGE; EVALUATION; PARTICLE PROPERTIES