Magnetic fields, strings and cosmology

Abstract

The main motivations and challenges related with the physics of large-scale magnetic fields are briefly analyzed. The interplay between large-scale magnetic fields and scalar CMB anisotropies is addressed with specific attention on recent progresses.

76 pages, 17 figures, To appear in the book "String theory and fundamental interactions" (published in celebration of the 65th birthday of Gabriele Veneziano), eds. M. Gasperini and J. Maharana (Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2007), www.springerlink.com/content/1616-6361

References in corpus (4)

• Cosmology with inhomogeneous magnetic fields
• CMB anisotropies due to cosmological magnetosonic waves
• Baryon asymmetry from hypermagnetic helicity in dilaton hypercharge electromagnetism
• Effective potential at finite temperature in a constant hypermagnetic field: Ring diagrams in the Standard Model

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• Primordial magnetic fields and nonlinear electrodynamics
• Magnetogenesis from Cosmic String Loops
• Magnetizing the universe