4 papers
Classical constant electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter
Mar Bastero-Gil, Paulo B. Ferraz, António Torres Manso +2
We study constant classical electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter space, with potential implications for magnetogenesis and inflationary dark matter production. Tre…
Schwinger Current in de Sitter Space
Mar Bastero-Gil, Paulo B. Ferraz, António Torres Manso +2
We study classical background electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter space. We show that having a constant electric field in de Sitter requires the photon to have a…
Schwinger dark matter production
Mar Bastero-Gil, Paulo B. Ferraz, Lorenzo Ubaldi +1
Building on recently constructed inflationary vector dark matter production mechanisms as well as studies of magnetogenesis, we show that an inflationary dark Schwinger mechanism c…
Super heavy dark matter from inflationary Schwinger production
Mar Bastero-Gil, Paulo B. Ferraz, Lorenzo Ubaldi +1
We consider a simple setup with a dark sector containing dark electrons charged under an abelian gauge symmetry. We show that if the massless dark photon associated to the…