Progress on cosmological magnetic fields

T Vachaspati - Reports on progress in physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A variety of observations impose upper limits at the nano Gauss level on magnetic fields that
are coherent on inter-galactic scales while blazar observations indicate a lower bound∼ …

Strong-field physics in QED and QCD: From fundamentals to applications

K Hattori, K Itakura, S Ozaki - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a pedagogical review article on fundamentals and applications of the quantum
dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields in QED and QCD. The fundamentals include the …

A novel probe of supersymmetry in light of nanohertz gravitational waves

K Murai, W Yin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract A new era of exploring the early Universe may have begun with the recent strong
evidence for the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background from the data reported by …

Strong backreaction regime in axion inflation

DG Figueroa, J Lizarraga, A Urio, J Urrestilla - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We study the nonlinear dynamics of axion inflation, capturing for the first time the
inhomogeneity and full dynamical range during strong backreaction, till the end of inflation …

A lower bound on intergalactic magnetic fields from time variability of 1ES 0229+ 200 from MAGIC and Fermi/LAT observations

VA Acciari, I Agudo, T Aniello, S Ansoldi… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Extended and delayed emission around distant TeV sources induced by the effects
of propagation of γ ray s through the intergalactic medium can be used for the measurement …

[HTML][HTML] Chiral effects in astrophysics and cosmology

K Kamada, N Yamamoto, DL Yang - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
The microscopic quantum nature of elementary particles, chirality, leads to macroscopic
phenomena like the chiral anomaly, chiral magnetic effect, and chiral plasma instability. We …

Gauge-field production during axion inflation in the gradient expansion formalism

EV Gorbar, K Schmitz, OO Sobol, SI Vilchinskii - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We study the explosive production of gauge fields during axion inflation in a novel gradient
expansion formalism that describes the time evolution of a set of bilinear electromagnetic …

Gauge field and fermion production during axion inflation

V Domcke, K Mukaida - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the dual production of helical Abelian gauge fields and chiral fermions through the
Chern-Simons (CS) coupling with a pseudo-scalar inflaton in the presence of a chiral …

Magnetogenesis from axion inflation

P Adshead, JT Giblin, TR Scully… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work we compute the production of magnetic fields in models of axion inflation
coupled to the hypercharge sector of the Standard Model through a Chern-Simons …

Wash-in leptogenesis after axion inflation

V Domcke, K Kamada, K Mukaida, K Schmitz… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract CP violation and the violation of baryon-minus-lepton number B− L do not
necessarily have to occur simultaneously in order to accomplish successful leptogenesis …