Inflationary magneto-(non)genesis, increasing kinetic couplings, and the strong coupling problem

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AABA22zbMATH Open1391.83146arXiv1707.05820OpenAlexW2736432061WikidataQ125812553 ScholiaQ125812553MaRDI QIDQ3177500FDOQ3177500

Evan McDonough, Hossein Bazrafshan Moghaddam, Robert H. Brandenberger, Ryo Namba

Publication date: 26 July 2018

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the generation of magnetic fields during inflation making use of a coupling of the inflaton and moduli fields to electromagnetism via the photon kinetic term, and assuming that the coupling is an increasing function of time. We demonstrate that the strong coupling problem of inflationary magnetogenesis can be avoided by incorporating the destabilization of moduli fields after inflation. The magnetic field always dominates over the electric one, and thus the severe constraints on the latter from backreaction, which are the demanding obstacles in the case of a decreasing coupling function, do not apply to the current scenario. However, we show that this loophole to the strong coupling problem comes at a price: the normalization of the amplitude of magnetic fields is determined by this coupling term and is therefore suppressed by a large factor after the moduli destabilization completes. From this we conclude that there is no self-consistent and generic realization of primordial magnetogenesis producing scale-invariant fields in the case of an increasing kinetic coupling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05820

zbMATH Keywords

inflationreheatingprimordial magnetogenesis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

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