Origin of magnetic fields during inflation and their subsequent evolution

28 Jan 2024, 10:10
20m
LHC (IISER Mohali)

LHC

IISER Mohali

Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Mohali, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Mohali -140306

Speaker

Krishna Mohan Parattu (IIT Mandi)

Description

Magnetic fields are found everywhere in the universe, including in intergalactic space. One possible mechanism for producing seed magnetic fields is by assuming a breaking of conformal invariance during inflation. I shall describe this mechanism as well as the evolution and certain quantum measures of these magnetic fields in some inflationary models of interest.

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Co-authors

Krishna Mohan Parattu (IIT Mandi) Rathul nath Raveendran (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India) Prof. Sriramkumar Lakshmanan (IIT Madras)

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