Primordial galactic magnetic fields from domain walls at the QCD phase transition

Citation
Mm. Forbes et A. Zhitnitsky, Primordial galactic magnetic fields from domain walls at the QCD phase transition, PHYS REV L, 85(25), 2000, pp. 5268-5271
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
85
Issue
25
Year of publication
2000
Pages
5268 - 5271
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(200012)85:25<5268:PGMFFD>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
We propose a mechanism to generate large-scale magnetic fields with correla tion Lengths of 100 kpc. Domain walls with QCD-scale internal structure for m and coalesce, obtaining Hubble-scale correlations while aligning nucleon spins. Because of strong CP violation, the walls are ferromagnetic, which i nduces electromagnetic fields with Hubble-size correlations. The CP violati on also induces a maximal helicity (Chern-Simons) which supports an "invers e cascade," allowing the initial correlations to grow to 100 kpc today. We estimate the generated electromagnetic fields in terms of the QCD parameter s and discuss the effects of the resulting fields.