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Natural Magnetogenesis from Inflation
K. Dimopoulos, T. Prokopec, O. Tornkvist +1
We consider the gravitational generation of the massive Z-boson field of the standard model, due to the natural breaking of its conformal invariance during inflation. The electrowe…
astro-ph1995
Primordial Magnetic Fields in False Vacuum Inflation
A. C. Davis, K. Dimopoulos
We show that, during false vacuum inflation, a primordial magnetic field can be created, sufficiently strong to seed the galactic dynamo and generate the observed galactic magnetic…