Primordial magnetic field and kinetic theory with Berry curvature [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01878


We apply the modified kinetic theory to study generation of magnetic field due to anomaly in a primordial plasma of the standard model particles at temperature $T>80$~TeV. It is known that a chiral imbalance in such plasma can lead to instabilities responsible for the origin of the magnetic fields. We have shown that inclusion of the Berry curvature term in the kinetic equation along with the collision term in the relaxation approximation can lead to the chiral vorticity effect. This effect was not considered in the earlier literature based on the heuristic application of the kinetic theory. But in the collisionless regime there may not be any vorticity generation. We also argued that the chiral imbalance in the collisionless regime remains subdominant for the primordial plasma compared to the case where the collisions are important.

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J. Bhatt and A. Pandey
Mon, 9 Mar 15
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