Magnetic field production at a first-order electroweak phase transition
Abstract
We observe the generation of magnetic field seeds during a first-order electroweak phase transition, by numerically evolving the classical equations of motion of the bosonic electroweak theory on the lattice. The onset of the transition is implemented by the random nucleation of bubbles with an arbitrarily oriented Higgs field in the broken phase. We find that about 10% of the latent heat is converted into magnetic energy, with most of the magnetic fields being generated in the last stage of the phase transition when the Higgs oscillates around the true vacuum. The energy spectrum of the magnetic field has a peak that shifts towards larger length scales as the phase transition unfolds. By the end of our runs the peak wavelength is of the order of the bubble percolation scale, or about a third of our lattice size.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1570030
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1594990
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0017987; SC0018330; SC0019470
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Particle astrophysics; Primordial magnetic fields; Particles & Fields; Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics
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Zhang, Yiyang, Vachaspati, Tanmay, and Ferrer, Francesc. Magnetic field production at a first-order electroweak phase transition. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.083006.
Zhang, Yiyang, Vachaspati, Tanmay, & Ferrer, Francesc. Magnetic field production at a first-order electroweak phase transition. United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.083006.
Zhang, Yiyang, Vachaspati, Tanmay, and Ferrer, Francesc. Thu .
"Magnetic field production at a first-order electroweak phase transition". United States. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.083006.
@article{osti_1570030,
title = {Magnetic field production at a first-order electroweak phase transition},
author = {Zhang, Yiyang and Vachaspati, Tanmay and Ferrer, Francesc},
abstractNote = {We observe the generation of magnetic field seeds during a first-order electroweak phase transition, by numerically evolving the classical equations of motion of the bosonic electroweak theory on the lattice. The onset of the transition is implemented by the random nucleation of bubbles with an arbitrarily oriented Higgs field in the broken phase. We find that about 10% of the latent heat is converted into magnetic energy, with most of the magnetic fields being generated in the last stage of the phase transition when the Higgs oscillates around the true vacuum. The energy spectrum of the magnetic field has a peak that shifts towards larger length scales as the phase transition unfolds. By the end of our runs the peak wavelength is of the order of the bubble percolation scale, or about a third of our lattice size.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.083006},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 8,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {10}
}
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